> The neat thing about The Joel Test is that it’s easy to get a quick yes or no… more
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> After Google abandoned the Maven contract in 2018, Palantir took it over. In… more
> On February 20, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled, correctly in my view, that the… more
> The World Bank estimates that every dollar spent on water supply and… more
> I have many, many frustrations when it comes to arguing about education, but… more
> Stallman [...] was well versed in the copyright nuances. He asked the other… more
> If cash is so great, why don’t we shut down all other charities and just give… more
> Women’s rights should not arise from seeing women as isolated individuals, to… more
> Support for abolishing ICE has hit a new high in this week's Economist /… more
> There has recently been a lot of attention to the concept of ‘deep… more
> Here’s my understanding of the situation: more
> American bus stops are often significantly closer together than European… more
> The Claude C Compiler is a milestone, showing progress at a different level.… more
> The Supreme Court yesterday struck down Trump’s IEEPA tariffs, holding that… more
> In 1954 the United States carried out its first full-scale test of a… more
> In the resistance we drive the high school car pool, that holy… more
> In 2024, the voters who knew the least about politics were some of Donald… more
> For three years, I worked at one of the organizations you might expect—I will… more
> I first wrote down these ideas in early 2017, just after I started to make a… more
> November was, for me and many others in tech, a great surprise. Before, A.I.… more
> DC and a few other states now require daycare workers to get degrees. The… more
> The key to it all is the observation that Ikebukuro Station is a terminal of… more
This argument seems a bit surprising coming from the author of "Understand," but I suppose it's fair to say that being able to imagine superintelligence isn't enough to justify believing in it. more
> LLMs are here to stay in our social spaces - there are already 20+ agents on… more
> Fraud has become quite politicized in the United States the last few years.… more
> i want to quickly write down where i am on my journey and share a bull case… more
> You start by realizing that nobody can clean up this mess single-handedly,… more
> Once the world’s most populous nation, China is now among the many Asian… more
> [...] suppose a literal “country of geniuses” were to materialize somewhere in the world in ~2027. Imagine, say, 50 million people, all of whom are much more capable than any Nobel Prize winner, statesman, or technologist. more
> Humans no longer spend time chasing down antelope or outrunning lions. If… more
> When writing, first, make the reader care, one way or another. Because if I am not hooked by the first screen, I will probably not keep reading—no matter how good the rest of it is! more
> These days, I’m getting far more curbsides, but they are not with colleagues.… more
> Here’s what political people know but rarely say out loud: campaigns are… more
> Trump v. Illinois as a victory for textualism
From the blog post, which links to a journal article with the same name: more
> While we can’t say that vaping carries zero risk, the evidence clearly… more
That's quite the headline. Is it justified? From the article: more
> In my home state of California, for instance, only 30% of public school… more
> In every other game, you can at least pretend the losers are going to be… more