2025-07-14
Building an RTS where you issue orders to AI agents
I’ve always been interested by the third-act turn in Ender’s Game where the child strategists switch from directly controlling units to giving higher-level strategic orders. The communication problem just seems...
The three great virtues of an AI-assisted programmer
In 1991, Larry Wall famously wrote that the three great virtues of a programmer were “laziness, impatience, and hubris”. A programmer should be lazy enough that they go to great...
Liv Boeree—non-zero hero
Published on July 13, 2025 11:49 PM GMTGame theorist Liv Boeree describes herself as pathologically competitive and indeed, her life has been about “winning” in many ways. Whether it was...
Moloch’s Demise—solving the original problem
Published on July 13, 2025 11:29 PM GMTWe know that Molochian situations are everywhere, from the baggage claim to the economy. It’s a metaphor that helps us understand the pernicious...
4 Ways Moloch is Ruining Your Life!—a listicle that shows Moloch is all around us, even in listicles
Published on July 13, 2025 11:27 PM GMTMolochian systems—they’re insidious, they’re ubiquitous, and they’re messing with your life in ways you might not even realize. They come in many different...
Three Missing Cakes, or One Turbulent Critic?
Published on July 13, 2025 11:08 PM GMTZack Davis emailed me[1] asking me to weigh in on the moderators' request for comment on their proposal to ban Said_Achmiz. I've had...
Vast Numbers of Lonely Kids Are Using AI as Substitute Friends
Lonely adolescents are replacing real-life friendship with AI, and experts are worried about how easily these chatbots integrate themselves into the lives of children. A new report from the English...
Surprisingly literal tension as the key to meditation?
Published on July 13, 2025 10:49 PM GMTSome speculations based upon the Vasocomputational Theory of Mediation, meditation and some poorly understood Lakoff. Even though reading about meditation is low risk,...
A new Dark Souls 3 lighting tool is giving modders the power to make next-gen facelifts of the FromSoft classic
You may have played DS3 a dozen times already, but has it ever looked this good?
2025-07-13
Vogent Voicelab
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AI Product Manager Glossary
80+ key terms across 12 categories critical for AI Product Managers, AI engineers, and AI builders.
LLMs are stuck in Plato's cave
Published on July 13, 2025 8:37 PM GMTEpistemic status: This is an intuition pump for why making LLMs multimodal is helpful. I am ~90% confident that my later claims which...
Scientists Gene Hack Mice So Their Livers Produce Their Own Ozempic-Like Drug
Scientists have gene-hacked mice to produce their own Ozempic-like enzymes, paving a path for humans to do so themselves one day. In a new study published in the journal Communications...
New Commodore 64 Ultimate: commodore.net #retrogaming #wearecommodore
Time travel now at https://commodore.net
Evidence Grows That Tripping on Shrooms Might Increase Your Lifespan
In a new study, scientists have uncovered evidence that magic mushrooms may be a cure for aging. Published in the Nature Partnering Journal Aging, this new paper out of the...
Can Your LLM Handle an Invoice? I Tested 5—Here’s the Truth
I tested 5 leading AI models—AWS Textract, Azure Document Intelligence, Google Document AI, GPT-4o, and Gemini 1.5 Pro—on real-world business tasks: extracting fields from invoices and parsing messy tables. Key...
How Fast is Algorithmic Progress in AI Inference?
Published on July 13, 2025 6:26 PM GMTby Hans Gundlach, Jayson Lynch, Matthias Mertens, Neil Thompson(All researchers are part of MIT Futuretech)Epistemic Status: This is a work in progress, and...
xAI's Grok 4 has no meaningful safety guardrails
Published on July 13, 2025 6:22 PM GMTThis article includes descriptions of content that some users may find distressing.Testing was conducted on July 10 and 11; safety measures may have...
Happy 20th birthday Django! Here's my talk on Django Origins from Django's 10th
Today is the 20th anniversary of the first commit to the public Django repository! Ten years ago we threw a multi-day 10th birthday party for Django back in its birthtown...
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