Small Bets, Costly Signals
L. "Magpie" PinetteI worked as a Machine Learning Engineer, attempted a linguistics PhD, and taught English to Koreans and Turks. I'm now pursuing self-employment & writing about that here, as well as AI, cogsci, and life in a world we made but aren’t made for.
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I hope I didn't destroy the best photos of my father
My late father, Brian Edmund Pinette. I am in the middle, my brother is in front.
Today is the 70th anniversary of my father's birth. He passed away four years and some change ago in early 2022. I'm doing a livestream this Saturday, which...
In a world of AI slop, it's time for me to stop trying to reach the masses
Recently, I have been experiencing a sea change in my thinking on originality and creativity, particularly as it relates to my own objectives. For most of my life, I have tended to think of the goal of creativity as being accessibly creativ...
My book club scheduling poll is live, but YouTube won't let me post it
Poll is linked below, but you can also click the screenshot.
A few days ago I used “Springtime for Hitler” as a verb in a community post. I didn't think anything of it until I noticed the post got comparatively little engagement. Then it o...
Do the two layers of social reality explain the differences between the left and the right?
Crop of a public domain political cartoon. I wanted some thing that signify an argument between left and right, and Substack messed up the preview, as it often does with drawings if you don't crop them.
The left has a tendency to insist th...
Brute vs formal: two levels of social reality
A barrier wall in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. This represents a case where formal social reality and brute social reality are in conflict. CC-by 2.0 Travel to Palestine on Flickr.
I finally made a video on the map/territory distinction...
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I worked as a Machine Learning Engineer, attempted a linguistics PhD, and taught English to Koreans and Turks. I'm now pursuing self-employment & writing about that here, as well as AI, cogsci, and life in a world we made but aren’t made for.
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