>be me >discover effective altruism >apparently normal charity is inefficient >why donate to random sad thing when spreadsheet can tell you optimal sad thing >fair enough >buy mosquito nets >save live...

John Cage comes to Halberstadt

An atlas of the vibrance of the real world

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

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AI is causing a crisis of agency.

The AI buildout is the largest capital expenditure in the history of the technology industry. The financial structure holding it together has a name.

Software simulacrum is not true consciousness, the stripper at the strip club doesn't actually love you, and nearly all of the biggest problems with "AI" have very ordinary human origins.

Data centre infrasound fears are a thing now. So here’s a deep dive into my history with wind turbine syndrome, and what it means for the wild data centre frenzy

Here’s a recent comment on LinkedIn from John Allspaw, on a post by Gandhi Mathi Nathan Kumar about availability. Allspaw’s comment is a succinct description of a safety model proposed …