1+ week, 6+ day ago   (753+ words) flyingpenguin.com Two spicy papers came out this year that caught my eye, probably for the wrong reasons. They are measuring a collapse in reasoning from two different perspectives, where a known result gets promoted as a discovery. Anthropic trained…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (809+ words) flyingpenguin.com The moment armies transmitted, their operations were being exposed as unclassified observations. In theory this was a risk since the first ever conflict, yet in practice we see a turning point with modern radio because of the sheer…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (281+ words) flyingpenguin I was surprised, but not really, to find a book about the harms of information technology is pushing bad history. The history wasn’t written by a historian, in other words. Take this bit, for example. First, Socrates wrote nothing....

3+ week, 50+ min ago   (391+ words) The plantation was the original demonstration that total ownership and total incapacity coexist. If you think that history clue sounds a lot like today’s techbro fascination with AI, then this post is for you. A new post called “Everything I…...