I watched this (youtu.be/TMoz3gSXBcY?...) on the abuse of LLMs & 'vibe physics' by @acollierastro.bsky.social - well worth a watch! - and I was struck by how the back 15 minutes (the 'thought train') also summed up neatly what it has been like to be a public-facing historian, even before LLMs.1/
This thing now deserves its own name
The answer was not the point. The answer was never the point. The process of searching is the process of learning.
Restarting an old routine "Daily Dose of Good Papers" together w @vaibhavadlakha.bsky.social
Sharing my notes and thoughts here 🧵
A Netflix miniseries by my brilliant colleague Ken Liu – Pantheon- posits that AI – the current fad – will be superseded by UI – Uploaded human minds. Good writing, layered. With some of the nuance about uploading that are in Robin Hanson’s THE AGE OF EM.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-diw...