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No, there are not too many good books to read
Counsels to read more of less
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What Were School Essays For, Anyway?
Reflections on the value of writing in the age of large language models
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Can We Uninvent a Technology?
Making things secret again, even mysterious
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Let's Stop Pretending We Are Original Thinkers (Updated 2022-01-11)
Some questions about the pressure to be original
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The Null Hypothesis of AI Safety with respect to Bing Chat
Or, disentangling when and when not to panic.
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We Did Start the Fire: Mayhem from the Internet Archive
Or, why we should not worry about large-language models telling people how to DBT (Do Bad Things)
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I Wanted to be a Wizard of Armageddon
Or, "Nuclear War: Much More Than You Wanted To Know"
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How to Tunnel Under (Soft) Paywalls
with reflections on the value of information
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Twice Read Books: Peter Thiel's "Zero to One" Or, On Secrets & Mysteries
Alpha, beta, and gamma secrets
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How I Failed in Business, Part One
Not a cautionary story, or even an instructional one. But it is a true one.
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Twice Read Books: Blaise Pascal's "Penseés" Or, On Distraction
Absolutely not an essay about Pascal's Wager
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Patriotism
A reminiscence from college days
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