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Finally an important and realistic application of economic theory to real life!

> I think the "living community" thing is the answer to this. It' ecology. I agree. A body of knowledge, mathematical knowledge being one of them, is a give-and-take between its pr…

This is an already apparent problem in academia, though not for the reasons the article suggests. It is not so much that the "tells" of a poor quality work are vanishing, but that …

> I'd say most people most of the time outsourced actual thinking to someone else. Someone else being human, until now. That may change. That's the whole point! But I concur with y…

A common error in historical thinking tends to see human tools essentially as a positive linear plot between time and progress. But these tools until AI had the common property of …

> We assert that artificial intelligence is a natural evolution of human tools. While nowhere in the paper this is actually asserted but the abstract, a whiggish narrative of a gen…

Or, as the author's preferred title, The Evolution of Human Science.

Pretty much the title. Context: I have to change my phone, and I thought it is also an opportunity to think about what I would value in a phone OS (privacy and control) vs what I w…

>its becoming very likely the user is becoming delusional or may engage in dangerous behavior. Talking to AI might be the very thing that keeps those tendencies below the threshold…

As an avid coffee-lover, I am sympathetic to the efforts to make coffee-brewing more of a science than an art. After all, it seems that doing so improves science just as much! http…

I see the hyperbole is the point, but surely what these machines do is to literally predict? The entire prompt engineering endeavour is to get them to predict better and more preci…

Around May, Altman said to FT that his job was the "most important job maybe in history" (FT: https://www.ft.com/content/a3d65804-1cf3-4d67-ac79-9b78a10b6... ). He did come back fr…

True, but the horses' population started (slightly) rising again when they went from economic tools to recreational tools for humans. What will happen to humans?