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AI evals are becoming intractable for the same reasons that measuring human general intelligence has been intractable for 150 years: the constructs resist decomposition, the benchm…

VRML co-inventor and metaverse OG Tony Parisi goes deep in Claude Code - and comes back with an open source Metaverse...

Something is happening right now that echoes the trends Clay Shirky was observing in those early days of Web 2.0. Perhaps it will turn out differently this time.

Skill at “steering” coding assistants may soon be the quality most sought after in software engineers, systems administrators and the like. It's a balance between a light touch and…

Our entire system for measuring the value of cognitive work is denominated in human time. But not even machines realize they’re not on human time. That’s a problem.

We regularly have 92% - 93% participation in federal elections here in Australia. Having one next weekend, and already record numbers of pre-poll votes.

De-Risking AI", Wisely AI's latest white paper, highlights and explains five new risks of Generative AI tools: anthropomorphising; malicious and commercially protected training dat…

Boffins find they can identify VR players just from head and hand movements

A fairy tale about a skeptical young prince, a Magician - and a pair of unusual sunglasses..

The race to the bottom is on and the IoS is about to get S'ier - great analysis from The Register

All of the references in the article were published here https://markpesce.com/meanjin/

Ask yourself if this is work you _want_ to do. What purpose does it serve - not just those you're teaching, but yourself? Can this be something you learn from too? Can it help open…