Avoiding generative models is the rational and responsible thing to do – follow-up to “Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI...’” Sept. 15, 2025, 9:09 a.m.

If there ever was a technology where the rational and responsible act was to hold off and wait and until the bubble pops, “AI” is it.

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Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’ is a huge risk Sept. 15, 2025, 9:09 a.m.

Cialdini’s book was a turning point because it highlighted the very real limitations to human reasoning. No matter how smart you were, the mechanisms of your thinkings could easily be tricked in ways that completely bypassed your logical thinking and could insert ideas and trigger decisions that were not in your best interest.

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AI Angst Sept. 15, 2025, 9:05 a.m.

My input stream is full of it: Fear and loathing and cheerleading and prognosticating on what generative AI means and whether it’s Good or Bad and what we should be doing. All the channels: Blogs and peer-reviewed papers and social-media posts and business-news stories. So there’s lots of AI angst out there, but this is mine.

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I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now Sept. 15, 2025, 9:04 a.m.

several years ago, I had an epiphany in my self-concept. I finally understood that, to the extent that I am usefully clever, it is less in a Holmesian idiom, and more, shall we say, Monkesque.

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The Gentle Singularity - Sam Altman Sept. 15, 2025, 9:03 a.m.

We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be.

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Sergey Brin Says Management Is the 'Easiest Thing to Do With AI' Sept. 15, 2025, 9:01 a.m.

In an episode of the "All In" podcast released on Tuesday, Google cofounder Sergey Brin said he has been using AI for some of his leadership tasks since returning to the company.

"Management is like the easiest thing to do with the AI," Brin said.

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Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too Sept. 15, 2025, 8:59 a.m.

The reason I’m not diving head first into everything AI isn’t because I fear it or don’t understand it, it’s because I’ve already long since come to my conclusion about the technology. I’m neither of the opinion that it’s completely useless or revolutionary, simply that the game being played is one I neither currently need nor want to be a part of.

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In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen Sept. 15, 2025, 8:58 a.m.

I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. Ten years from now a microwave may even be able to run the country.

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Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up Sept. 15, 2025, 8:57 a.m.

I wish the AI coding dream were true. I wish I could make every dumb coding idea I ever had a reality. I wish I could make a fretboard learning app on Monday, a Korean trainer on Wednesday, and a video game on Saturday. I’d release them all. I’d drown the world in a flood of shovelware like the world had never seen. Well, I would — if it worked.

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