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20 September
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Putting people into a tin-can with no windows, blank walls, and an infernal background hum will drive them mad.
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the distinctive modern pathology is unopposed rhetoric: values statements and PR that pre-empt criticism as they are designed to never face an advocate on the other side.
18 September
17 September
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The blank slate fallacy is a false premise that is highly damaging to both humans and AI.Their words
It’s amazing how damaging a single false premise (the blank slate fallacy) can be for humans. Same holds true for AI.
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9 September
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every time Mehdi comes at me with his "Anyone who doesn't like me is an ISLAMOPHOBE" shit, he gets massively ratioed. People have HAD IT with this crap, man.
31 August
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Disputes about phones, homework and childhood are disputes about values, and more data will not settle them.Their words
the claim here is that arguments about smartphones, bullying, and homework are arguments about values, often moral values
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Two hours a day on lessons pitched at a child's actual level teaches them more than six hours of class plus homework.Their words
Our average student does not sit in class for six and do homework. They sit at an AI app and they spend two hours a day. The average kid spent 121 minutes last year in the apps and learned more than 2x they what they would have in sitting in class for six and doing homework.
26 August
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Countries and peoples have a right to set an immigration policy, and this notion that we shouldn't have any borders or, or even worse than that, it's all just a blank slate, that all peoples are just the same, and we can take people from one place of the earth and we can place them in another place on the earth and everything's just gonna work out hunky-dory. Empirically not true.
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that charge long leveled at sun and wind-that they provide "intermittent power"-is probably truer now of other energy sources
22 July
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You cannot learn from work you did not do yourself.Their words
But having AI do your homework is self-defeating. You can’t learn without doing the work.
5 July
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Taste is not about consensus or criticism, but the courage to value what genuinely resonates with you.Their words
Taste isn't consensus. It's not judgment first, either. It's easy to be a critic. Curiosity has to come first, because without curiosity you never broaden your horizons.
29 June
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Criticism as a field of writing is declining today.Their words
David Remnick, who has given me free rein at a time when criticism is withering away
27 June
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Perfectionism is caused by unreasonably demanding expectations and unduly harsh criticism from others.Their words
Perfectionism stems from unreasonably demanding expectations and unduly harsh criticism.
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Now part of the skillset is being able to weather like a fire hose of criticism like the world has never seen.
12 February
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Most of the alarming MoltBook screenshots were humans prompting the bots to go viral, not autonomous AI behaviour.Their words
my criticism of MoltBook is that I believe a lot of the stuff that was screenshotted is human prompted. Which, just look at the incentive of how the whole thing was used. It’s obvious to me at least that a lot of it was humans prompting the thing so they can then screenshot it and post it on X in order to go viral.
10 February
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The "homework problem" described above might be much worse in practice for end users who aren't motivated to invest in their email triage systems, even if it will save them time in the medium term.
15 January
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In short, whether AI is a normal technology or an unusually dangerous one, it doesn't make sense for companies to check their own homework on safety and security.
9 December 2025
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Literary criticism is itself a form of literature.Their words
I know that this is a contested idea, but my favorite books of the last five years have all been books of criticism, so...I mean, it's literature to me!
1 December 2025
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So many of us in the education world have seen this precise change in our students over the past decade: They have more difficulty reading books, sitting through a 75-minute class, or doing their homework.
18 November 2025
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Multiple ChoiceTheir words
Two other formally odd books I love: Alejandro Zambra's Multiple Choice (trans. by Megan McDowell), structured as a standardized test with e.g. chapters of fill-in-the-blank questions
26 October 2025
21 September 2025
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And so it's not really about the environment or the wall. It's really about how we see it and whether we can find the thing that is deep and rich and infinite in that direction.
20 September 2025
18 September 2025
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I believe those things are utterly incorrect now. I I I I think people love leadership. Like they like they they love complaining about it, too, which they should. And it like it deserves all criticism it gets, but like there's something absolutely wonderful being part of a group that's being led.
31 July 2025
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I nonetheless found this book somewhat disappointing, because Jay seemed content to expound the authors he covers in more or less their own terms, rather than subjecting them to anything like actual epistemological or methodological criticism.
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Mind candy: A fun travelogue which does what it says in the title. It pretty much satisfies any impulses I might have to actually see any of the artworks in question. No familiarity with art-critical jargon required, though long passages are (more or less explicitly) art criticism.
12 May 2025
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A blank chat box is lazy: it violates the first rule of a good user experience, that it is obvious what you can do.Their words
The problem with a blank chat box on a blank page is that it violates the first rule of a high-quality user experience: it isn’t obvious what I can do.
14 April 2025
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26 March 2024
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Criticism is what happens when someone with domain knowledge who is not trying to earn status by hurting you is able to help you see the world as it is. And those three pieces are the key, right? Because most of the criticism I've gotten in my life has come from people who felt like they would feel better if I felt worse.
25 January 2024
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criticism is part of the job description of success, that the respect and admiration you want will always come with a healthy serving of critics eager to tear you down.
20 January 2024
29 December 2023
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At a higher level, the real event was a catastrophic failure of the industry's strategy of relentlessly shouting as loud as they can "Hey, get off our case, we're busy saving lives here!"
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20 November 2023
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In my view, too many critics of “cancel culture” are recklessly promoting not the speech of the powerless, but the censorious resentment of the powerful.
My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut Uppopehat.substack.com
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“Your criticism violates my right to free speech” is a fatuous but common American sentiment.
My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut Uppopehat.substack.com
9 November 2023
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Yeah. I mean, I would say that I’m pathologically optimistic on schedule. This is true.
26 May 2022
4 March 2022
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The LoopTheir words
Science journalist Jacob Ward warns about a future in which AI technology forms a tight cybernetic feedback loop with the biases ingrained into the human brain, pushing our day-to-day existence in frightening directions. It's sort of like a version of The Terminator in which Danny Kahneman plays a starring role. As longtime readers and listeners of mine know, a big theme in my techno-criticism is the under-appreciated degree to which technologies exert powerful, unintended consequences on our personhood and culture, so Ward's warning hits a sweet spot with me.
28 October 2020
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The Startup Owner's ManualTheir words
This is Steve Blank's textbook to starting a company. It's the Four Steps to the Epiphany, expanded and much more readable. If you want to deep dive into the Lean methodology, this is the book to read.
5 November 2019
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Both the special-purpose-programs view and the blank-slate view of human intelligence are likely incorrect.Their words
Today, it is increasingly apparent that both of these views of the nature of human intelligence - either a collection of special-purpose programs or a general-purpose Tabula Rasa - are likely incorrect
22 July 2019
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We challenge this approach. It encourages design by committee and infuses a superficial sense of collaboration that leads to compromises and weakens ideas. Our view, the product of years of studies of and participation in innovation projects, is that effective teams do not defer critical reflection; they create through criticism.
22 February 2018
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