Avoiding generative models is the rational and responsible thing to do – follow-up to ā€œTrusting your own judgement on ā€˜AI...ā€™ā€ 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, ā€œAIā€ is it.

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Trusting your own judgement on ā€˜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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Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet [LWN.net] Sept. 15, 2025, 9 a.m.

He began by noting that he is known for coining the term "enshittification" about the decay of tech platforms, so attendees were probably expecting to hear about that; instead, he wanted to start by talking about nursing. A recent study described how nurses are increasingly getting work through one of three main apps that "bill themselves out as 'Uber for nursing'". The nurses never know what they will be paid per hour prior to accepting a shift and the three companies act as a cartel in order to "play all kinds of games with the way that labor is priced".

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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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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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Everything PKI Oct. 14, 2019, 5:10 p.m.

PKI is really powerful, and really interesting. The math is complicated, and the standards are stupidly baroque, but the core concepts are actually quite simple. Certificates are the best way to identify code and devices, and identity is super useful for security, monitoring, metrics, and a million other things. Using certificates is not that hard. No harder than learning a new language or database. It’s just slightly annoying and poorly documented. This is the missing manual.

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Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained Oct. 9, 2019, 8:49 a.m.

Recently, I am learning how Elliptic Curve Cryptography works. I searched around the internet, found so many articles and videos explaining it. Most of them are covering only a portion of it, some of them skip many critical steps how you get from here to there. In the end, I didn’t find an article that really explains it from end-to-end in an intuitive way. With that in mind, I would like to write a post explaining Elliptic Curve Cryptography, cover from the basics to key exchange, encryption, and decryption.

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Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Beginners Oct. 16, 2017, 9:43 a.m.

A description of ECC without using advanced math

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Network Protocols – Programmer's Compendium June 13, 2017, 9:55 a.m.

The network stack does several seemingly-impossible things. It does reliable transmission over our unreliable networks, usually without any detectable hiccups. It adapts smoothly to network congestion. It provides addressing to billions of active nodes. It routes packets around damaged network infrastructure, reassembling them in the correct order on the other side even if they arrived out of order. It accommodates esoteric analog hardware needs, like balancing the charge on the two ends of an Ethernet cable. This all works so well that users never hear of it, and even most programmers don't know how it works.

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The Document Which Was Formerly Called The MIT Guide to Lockpicking March 28, 2017, 5:27 p.m.

The theory of lock picking is the theory of exploiting mechanical defects. There are a few basic concepts and definitions but the bulk of the material consists of tricks for opening locks with particular defects or characteristics.

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iOS 10: The MacStories Review Sept. 14, 2016, 6:26 p.m.

Sometimes, change is unexpected. More often than not, change sneaks in until it feels grand and inevitable. Gradually, and then suddenly. iOS users have lived through numerous tides of such changes over the past three years.

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