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From one piece Pluralistic: Itch scratching (25 Sep 2026) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Slop's not merely annoying or time-wasting: it's a betrayal of the love and care that goes into writing and maintaining code for others.
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Being the domain expert on your own needs doesn't make you the expert on how to address those needs.Their words
while you are the domain expert on your needs, that doesn't mean you're the domain expert on how to address those needs.
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Vibe-coding is risky mainly when the code is written for other people to use, not for the author's own use.Their words
I am highly skeptical of vibe-coding in the sense of writing code for other people to use.
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From one piece Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Chatbots do not need to be treated as people to be valuable; being an impressive mathematical system is enough.Their words
Chatbots are marvels of mathematics, and that is enough. They don't need to be people.
Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026)pluralistic.net
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when we interact with an AI, we hallucinate the person on the other side of the interaction.
Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026)pluralistic.net
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AI systems built on statistical inference cannot form intent, because they have nothing with which to form it.Their words
Anyone who understands how the theory-free statistical inference systems we call "AI" (at this time) work will understand that they are systems that cannot form intent, that have nothing to form intent with
Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026)pluralistic.net
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From one piece Pluralistic: Textured (18 Sep 2026) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But - by definition - it can't contain any of our future surprises, because it's just trained on the things we already know, and if we knew about something, it wouldn't be a surprise anymore.
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Being able to statistically predict what someone will say does not mean you understand them.Their words
the fact that you can use a statistical lookup table to predict what words someone is going to say doesn't mean you understand them
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Naive, "theory-free" statistical extrapolation (the method that LLMs rely on) has hard limits.
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Music Copyright, Creativity, and CultureTheir words
Jenkins understands it, though. I've been reading, writing, and debating about this stuff since the late 1990s, and I learned something new on every page of this delightful book.
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The Open Copyright CasebookTheir words
Jenkins' flair for legal communications carries over to her scholarly work, of course, which is why her Open Copyright Casebook is a standard text for American law schools:
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THEFT! A History of MusicTheir words
These examples are liberally illustrated with links to musical excerpts that bring the subject to life (these are presented as hotlinks in the ebook; if you're reading the print edition, you can use the book's companion website:) https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/musiccopyright/ Interspersed with these histories and analysis are lengthy, extremely on-point excerpts from THEFT!
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Kill StickyTheir words
I've been running gala8y's version for a year now with no problems, and I recommend it as your second line of dickover defense (after Reader Mode)
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Everybody's PerfectTheir words
And now it's Everybody's Perfect, a book that pretty much defines what it means for one text to be "in dialog" with another text. In this case, it's Ada Palmer's Inventing the Renaissance, a stunning magnum opus that tells not just the story of the Renaissance, but the story of the story, all the different ways the Renaissance has been used, abused, revised and recovered, starting with the Renaissance itself. It's a book that will make you rethink everything you know about European history, about the world today, and about the very idea of history itself
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ObstetrixTheir words
All told, this is a read-in-one-sitting thriller that does as much to illuminate the workings and dynamics of patriarchy and religion as any gender studies class. It's peak Kritzer (so far), and that's saying something.
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Here Where We Live Is Our CountryTheir words
Crabapple's response to this burgeoning movement is this book, a massive, heroic, brilliant, and pitiless history of the Bund that proposes its own answer to "the Jewish question."
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CannonTheir words
The result is something that's beautiful, sharp, critical and lingering. Long after I closed the cover, I found myself mulling over the delicate ways that Lai raised the contradictions, sorrows and beauty of queer love, racial identity, camaraderie, self-control, and self-indulgence. Lai's characters have no answers, only questions that can never be fully resolved. Instead, these questions are the defining puzzles, defeats and triumphs of their lives.
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Inventing the RenaissanceTheir words
Ada Palmer may just be the most bewilderingly talented person I know: a genius sf writer, incredible librettist and singer, wildly innovative educator, and a leading historian of the Renaissance, and last year, she published her magnum opus, Inventing the Renaissance, a stunning book about so much more than history
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Privacy's DefenderTheir words
This book is a beautiful capstone to a brilliant career that defined the fight for cyber rights, and a deep, accessible dive into the defining tech and human rights battles of this century.
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Hospital at the End of the WorldTheir words
Hospital at the End of the World is Key's first novel, and it's terrific.
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The Universe BoxTheir words
This is what it means to read a short story collection from an absolute master at the absolute peak of his powers. He can slide you frictionlessly between Icelandic troll tragedies to lethal drone-leopard romantic agonies to battles of the gods and the cigar box that has the universe inside of it. All with the lyricism of Bradbury, the madcap wit of Sturgeon, the unrelenting weirdness of Dick, the heart of Tiptree and the precision of Chiang.
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