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NPS, I’m looking at you…
Mutatis mutandis (left as an exercise for the reader) this is the most important thing you’ll read all year about…
New short story: “A Distant Home”
Exile had been the announced price of failure and (only technically legal) neuroengineering cartels were not known for mercy. When…
New short story: “A Sense of Community”
She dreams often of what had been the most peaceful place in her life. It’s not her only nightmare but…
New short story: “Emotional Surplus”
Had the neuroengineering of knowledge been easier than that of emotions — had humans brains excelled at knowing and being…
New short story: “The Knife, the Catacomb, the Crime, and the Saint”
During the day Jane thought of it as a knife: half of it was designed to be killed by and…
To get a glimpse of the future, read the PhD theses of smart people
An easy prediction: the largest impact of AI will be in science and engineering. That’s because, one, those are areas…
Large language models are stranger than most people think
Yes, they aren’t human. Yes, they are always making stuff up (always plausibly, sometimes even truthfully). But the strangeness is…
Very good advice from very smart people on experiment design
Gelman (et al.) are among the world’s experts on applied inference, meaning they rank high in the list of people…
New short story: “Lightly Censored Letter Home from a Ghoul”
Hiya. I have to write a letter, we can’t do video or voice.. Can you imagine? You were right, they…
New short story: “The Third Inheritance”
Troy didn’t move back to his father’s house until the inheritance trial had been settled. It wasn’t that his ownership…