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I agree (see endnote #5).

Thanks for catching this! I fixed the error.

I added a sentence: “(Warning: This is sort of a trick question, so don’t expect a textbook-style answer!)” I hope that this will prevent others from being similarly frustrated.

I plan to continue using AI tools, but to do so in a mindful way, to avoid becoming addicted to them, and to be prepared to back off if I don’t like the direction they take me in.

This is an essay about a simple but (I think) underappreciated point: If a process follows a logistic curve, then early behavior is almost indistinguishable from exponential growth…

Perhaps an additional Moral is, if a calculation can be done in an afternoon, it's probably been done before. (I say this because it's been pointed out in the Comments section of m…

I'm not sure I understand your question. Given that it takes an infinite amount of time to write down the decimal expansion of pi, what might it mean to compute pi in finite time?

Thanks for catching this! What was in my mind when I wrote the first of those two sentences was the entirety of my past experience using ChatGPT as a research tool, and all the tim…

As usual, I'm most interested in comments that will help me improve the article, but feedback of every kind is welcome!

I’ve updated this passage. Let me know if the new version is clearer.

Thanks for pointing this out. I’ll work on this passage tomorrow.

Yes!

Do you disagree with my take or think I’m missing Witt’s point? I’d be happy to hear from people who disagree with me.