9yo has not explicitly said she misses school, but in the last week she’s sent me one book report on the Salem Witch Trials and a Canva presentation about ancient Egypt.

The LLMs have quietly developed the ability to be Proust characters. I wonder if these numbers somehow analogize to smell. When you think about it, a smell is an incredibly potent psychoactive that affects everyone differently.

If you’ve ever wanted what parenting is like, nearly 2yo demanded coffee (I gave him about a tablespoon), poured it into a toy toilet, and tried to drink it.

If we don't kill all the shrimp, there's a nonzero but tiny chance that humanity will be wiped out, shrimp will evolve intelligence, they'll eventually build ASI, and it will create 10^100+1 simulated humans and torture them for eternity. It's us or them, man. Us or them.

Shopping for your kids on your own Amazon account just means getting pretty well-targeted marketing emails a quarter-century too late.

We're moving! Slightly, still within Austin but a little more central. As a consequence of various policies designed to encourage home ownership, we'd leave a ton of money on the table if we sold this house, so instead we're achieving the American dream of being minor landlords.

2028 is going to be such an interesting campaign, because whoever best hints that they’ll keep white collar crime legal will be able to raise so much from people who made their fortunes starting around 2025.

One of the things you can afford if you’re very well-off is an executive assistant you can task with buying surprisingly thoughtful gifts for friends and business partners. Imagine being the one who was told, years ago: “write a nice birthday story for my pervert friend Jeff.”

Having "saved memory full" in the screenshot of your ChatGPT session is the green text bubble of LLM use.