Things I read and liked in April
Andy Masley on how he uses AI. Extremely useful, and as he notes, soon to be out of date.
Werner Hertzog being extremely Werner Herzog on the jungle.
Werner Hertzog being extremely Werner Herzog on speaking French.
The indifference engine. “It’s just insane that language models actually work….It would be so easy to let it slip into normalcy. ‘OK. Guess my laptop can talk to me now and teach me anything’.
Lexical gaps in English: you can induce stupor by stupefying, but not fervor by fervifying. You can be fervid but not terrid. You can be terrific but not rigific.
Cate Hall on taking testosterone: “I’ve been going back and forth for a long time — like, months — on how to frame this piece, which concerns the fact that taking testosterone has massively, unmistakably improved my quality of life.”
Want to avoid racing dynamics in AI? Steven Adler draws inspiration from actual races.
Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theory. Coverage.
A review of Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, a “rare book on strategy that isn’t pointless.”
[Thumbnail painting: Reading (Leitura), José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior. 1892.]
That Herzog clip in the jungle is pure genius. I recently watched Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo and yeah, why would you want to go there.