Paul Graham wrote an essay titled Good Writing (May 2025).
« I think writing that sounds good is more likely to be right… Fixing sentences that sound bad seems to help get the ideas right. »
Continue reading “Clumsy writing will usually have gotten the ideas wrong too”John V. Willshire wrote a blog post titled Cognitive Debt (5 May 2025).
Continue reading “Cognitive Debt and Technical Debt”The Economist published an article titled Is the Decline of Reading Making Politics Dumber? (4 Sept 2025).
« The problem was less that these students of literature were not literary and more that they were barely even literate. »
Continue reading “Is the decline of reading making politics dumber?”Dee Gill wrote an article for UCLA Anderson Review titled Unflattering Facts Don’t Dent Positive Self-Assessments (17 September 2025).
Continue reading “People rate selves better than average, even faced with objective data to the contrary.”Adam Tauman Kalai (Open AI), Ofir Nachum (Open AI), Santosh S. Vempala (Georgia Tech), and Edwin Zhang (Open AI) wrote a paper titled Why Language Models Hallucinate (4 September 2025).
Continue reading “Why language models hallucinate”Robert P. Murphy wrote an article for the Mises Institute titled The Chicago School versus the Austrian School (26 May 2020).
Continue reading “Austrian Economics vs. Chicago Economics”Doug Garnett and JP Castlin wrote a blog post titled Complexity: The Dynamic Uncertainty of Emergence (1 August 2025).
Continue reading “Dynamic Uncertainty”Doug Garnett wrote a blog post titled Complexity: Small Giants and the Myths of Growth (July 11, 2025).
Continue reading “Myths of Growth”Thomas S. Bateman wrote an article for The Conversation titled Scientists tend to superspecialize – but there are ways they can change (December 8, 2015).
Continue reading “If scientists’ knowledge is segregated in non-overlapping silos, there can’t be cross-pollination between fields”Steve Lohr wrote an article for the New York Times titled Your A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be With You Soon (14 May 2025).
Continue reading “A.I. is not replacing radiologists”
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