analects noun, pl
/ˈan.ə.lɛkts/
a collection of ideas, extracts, or teachings.
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- ai is shit at reasoning 8 Jul 2026 [marginalium] AI is shit at reasoning. Since I wrote my article on the Enigma of (AI) Reason, this arXiv article has come out, exploring the same fundamen...
- ai dark output 4 Jun 2026 [marginalium] AI Dark Output. I vacillate about how useful AI is. It’s got classic Malcolm Gladwell Shit/Karstic energy. It feels productive, for many peo...
- ai and task fragmentation 4 Jun 2026 [marginalium] AI and task fragmentation. A while back I came across the time-horizon model of AI task automation. It was a somewhat reassuring piece for p...
- space skepticism 30 May 2026 [marginalium] Space skepticism. Essentially, the idea that moving operations to space isn’t going to solve problems we face on earth. Not yet, anyway. Int...
- ai productivity 22 May 2026 [marginalium] AI productivity. I’m pretty skeptical about AI enhancing productivity (see e.g. AI isn’t changing anything yet and the slow gains despite ap...
- the era of the business idiot 29 Apr 2026 [marginalium] The Era Of The Business Idiot. Good article on what I have variously called Malcolm Gladwell Shit or karstic traps. I’ll pull a few quotes f...
- ai simulates conversations 24 Feb 2026 [marginalium] AI simulates conversations. Sometimes, when a problem is hard, LLMs with ‘thinking’ will simulate an internal conversation between different...
- ai use and skill formation 5 Feb 2026 [marginalium] AI use and skill formation. A paper out of Anthropic’s alignment fellowship program. Coders coding with and without AI. Not super compelled...
- gnosticism in blood meridian 26 Jan 2026 [marginalium] Gnosticism in Blood Meridian. Fantastic old essay on the Gnostic themes in McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. I am a little confused by his account...
- against mcaskillian longtermism 10 Jul 2025 [marginalium] Against McAskillian Longtermism: Whatever is wrong with utilitarians who advocate the murder of a million for a 0.0001 percent reduction in...
- ethical astrology 9 Jul 2025 [marginalium] Ethical astrology: Astrological forecasting tends to describe the future more thematically or archetypically than concretely, and the vast...
- the economy of small pleasures 8 Jul 2025 [marginalium] The continued failure of the economy of small pleasures. extrinsic incentives such as money or grades to learn [make it] harder to learn ne...
- the practical inconsequence of the free will debate 7 Jul 2025 [marginalium] The deterministic view of free will always seems to cause such furore, forgetting that whether free will exists or not, this world is so int...
- the line between sleep and wake 6 Jul 2025 [marginalium] There is a thin line between sleep and wake. You know this if you have sleep paralysis or are a lucid dreamer. In that spirit, here, we have...
- dunning-kruger is about noise 3 Jul 2025 [marginalium] The Dunning-Kruger effect is the idea that: People base their perceptions of performance, in part, on their preconceived notions about thei...
- critiquing utilitarianism 2 Jul 2025 [marginalium] I think a lot of people intuitively like the kind of “calculus of pain and pleasure” that utilitarianism offers. But it often falls short of...
- digital personhood 1 Jul 2025 [marginalium] On the possibilities for secure digital personhood. I am fairly obsessed with this, but my first project on it isn’t very user-friendly. Nor...
- is culture socially costly 30 Jun 2025 [marginalium] The Risks and Social Costs of High Culture: High culture now functions like a counterculture, entailing a conscious act of dissent from the...
- god without god 26 Jun 2025 [marginalium] God without god. Hard to explain in a marginalia. But there is this ‘hard’ problem of consciousness (not conscious access). Why do we have e...
- are intelligentsia less happy 26 Jun 2025 [marginalium] Are intelligentsia less happy? An argument for why intelligent people are less happy—because intelligence does not measure how good you are...
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