Tags / technology
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AI Alignment
Alignment means building AI systems that actually achieve what we value — not systems that appear to achieve it, and not systems that execute instructions too literally.
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Computation
What computation actually is — and why it might be the most fundamental concept in science, from physics to biology to mind.
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Computer Science
What it actually means to learn programming — and why the standard reactions to that question both miss the point.
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Science and Society
The pushback against science is some of the most misguided disagreement in modern society — and the most damaging.
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The Command Line
Every GUI is a layer of abstraction over what is actually happening. The command line strips it away.
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The Programming Mindset
What programming teaches you about thinking — and why the most important thing to understand about computers is that they are dumb.