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Why the Bronze Age collapsed
Technology shapes societies. “The difficulty involved in mining and transporting tin is one reason that access to bronze weaponry remained concentrated in military and elite institutions. The average citizen still largely relied on tools made of copper, stone, bone, or… Read More »Why the Bronze Age collapsed
Coding is NOT solved
This. “What I’m trying to elaborate is that I don’t want the services (that I depend on) to degrade just because someone pushed AI where it didn’t belong or skipped their job in quality, security, reliability and verification.” https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/coding-is-not-solved
Dario Amodei SNL
This is exactly what AI CEOs sound to me.
How Enigma Worked
Nice explainer.
Everybody’s Lost Their Minds
Yes they did. “despite having found literally thousands of new vulnerabilities (only a fraction of which were reported to Open Source projects, by the way), I don’t think that we’re any safer than before. That’s because finding vulnerabilities has never… Read More »Everybody’s Lost Their Minds
Interview with Big Data engineer in 2026
Eventual consistency was too hard so we opted for immediately wrong.
dario, please!
Why we keep trusting CEOs when their incentive is just to make more money? “I feel like Dario is torn. He wants Anthropic to have this bad boy street cred of wielders of this crazy power, yet at the same… Read More »dario, please!
The Rapture of the Nerds: On the Delirium of Transhumanism
You cannot avoid wrestling with ethics and morality, no matter the system. “The Prime Directive itself is, arguably, the most pseudo-theological law ever conceived in science fiction. A secular commandment forged in Kantian steel, backed by liberal guilt and anthropological… Read More »The Rapture of the Nerds: On the Delirium of Transhumanism
Why the software industry needs a lot of regulation
I think this will need to change soon. “Engineers, even at big technology companies, don’t have the authority to make critical safety decisions. If an executive wants to ship self-driving software that has deadly flaws, they can just overrule any… Read More »Why the software industry needs a lot of regulation