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Two things are true here. The em dash shouldn’t automatically be a sign of AI writing. That said, they’re also been quite overused in recent years, which is probably causing them t…

What does it say about us that we think this is AGI or close to it? Maybe AGI really is here?

Nothing says “I don’t respect you” like giving someone a sequence from a random text generator.

This is nothing new. Critics wanna be challenged. Audiences don’t.

I'm becoming an acolyte of this classic tech. It's a fantastic way to bridge the internet with the simple life. That said, it can be tricky to find RSS feeds with any consistent me…

It’s called the Rule of Three. It’s a good writing practice, but it can be overdone. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(writing)

"A good deal of literary criticism serves only to reinforce a caste system which is as old as the intellectual snobbery which nurtured it. No one can be as intellectually slothful …

There’s a clip floating around where Bowie referred to the internet as a new lifeform. I think about that a lot.

What should you know? You might have a lot of fun tinkering with your own personal text editor. It’s like building your own permacomputing environment. I started using Emacs org mo…

Word of mouth has been and will be always the most reliable form of curation.

Any decent headline can be accused of being clickbait. The entire point is to get the reader interested.

Where’s the joy in that? We don’t have to replace humans for everything.

AI doesn’t solve that problem. It reflects the biases of the trainers.

Experience is suffering. A rich westerner is free to write whatever he wants about China but without firsthand experience or skin in the game, he shouldn’t expect his takes to be c…

Justifying AI writing with the example of women’s writing is false equivalence and, frankly, demeaning to women. As humans, women suffer for their work and literally bring the rest…

I'm working towards something similar with an Emacs configuration. That way, it's a workflow I could use on a daily driver as well. I was initially skeptical of the learning curve,…