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Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.

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  A neural network's latent space is closer to an uncopyrightable syntax than to copyrightable expression.

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  The latent spaces of an LLM are closer to something like a syntax which is not copyrightable.

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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  Remote work and entrepreneurship take away shared spaces, like offices, where people used to make friends or meet partners.

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  And with remote work and entrepreneurship, people lack a space like an office where people would usually make friends or meet partners

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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  Xiaomi air purifier

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  xiaomi air purifier in every room, big spaces get the big purifiers, smaller rooms small ones (most air purifiers are too small for the space they're in!)

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Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.

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  The default social mood in many public spaces is ironic detachment.

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  The default mood of a lot of spaces is a sort of ironic detachment.

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Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

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  A test checks a handful of examples; a proof settles an infinite state space, which is why formal methods can say things testing never can.

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  But a proof can reason about potentially infinite state spaces. So, it can tell you things about like every possible thing that could possibly happen in the entire universe.

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American social psychologist at NYU Stern School of Business; author of The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind and The Anxious Generation.

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  An age limit on social media does not need perfect enforcement to work, because its job is to change the default rather than to stop every child.

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  The goal is not perfect enforcement. Some kids will still find workarounds. The goal is to shift the environment so children are not pressured into digital spaces they don’t want, simply to avoid being left out.

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Co-founder of Rockstar Games, lead writer of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, and founder of Absurd Ventures since leaving in 2020.

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  Language models will not replace good ideas, only the low-level work, so what they threaten is the ability to start a creative career rather than to have one.

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  They’re not going to, they’re not going to replace good ideas. They can’t really come up with good new ideas. What they can do is do low-level stuff. So I think it’s going to be harder for people to start out in some of these spaces.

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