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The White Car and the Not-White Car
A biting essay on how LLM rivalries became tribal politics, moral branding, and cultural theater disguised as technical debate.
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AI, Abundance, and the Discipline of Being Human
Ben Sasse sees AI as an amplifier of human nature, rewarding discipline and exposing the social cost of distraction and passivity.
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Review: The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AI
There is a well-known saying that every mathematical formula in a book halves the audience. The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AI is a persuasive counterexample. Its pages are full of formulas, yet they do not alienate the reader, because they are always there for a reason. They are not decorative. They are not there…
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Paper Tape Is All You Need
A transformer on a PDP-11 shows what machine learning really is: arithmetic, constraints, attention, and engineering without modern AI mystique.
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Two Fronts, One War: The Quiet Normalization of Digital Intimacy Theft
Two scandals, one lesson: AI chats and browser scans expose the same appetite for covert data extraction behind the language of convenience and safety.
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