I know we all have disaster fatigue, but the reason why historic LA fires get so much coverage is because there are more people in greater LA county than in *most US states*

Prophecies of the Flood What to make of the statements of the AI labs?

There has been a definite shift in recent weeks where insiders in the various AI labs are suggesting that very intelligent AIs are coming very soon.

I wrote a bit about why this might be happening and what we can take away from their apparent confidence. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/prophecies...

'Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.' Alfred North Whitehead

Thinking Like an AI A little intuition can help

How to get an intuitive understanding of how to work with LLMs by drawing on a (not-very-technical) understanding of how they work, from my substack: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/thinking-l...