It’s not time for "Earth Time"

The human relationship with time is changing again. We’re not living in the railroad world anymore. We’re living in a networked world—a zone of experience where the sun neither rises nor sets. What time zone governs Twitter? What time is it on Facebook? There’s plenty to argue about in cyberspace, as in the real world. We could at least agree on the time.

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Liquid Glass and future hardware

To me, it feels like Liquid Glass is really meant for touch screens and OLED displays, where colors can pop and you can interact with the floating glass with your fingers. It makes less sense on a big-screen TV or an Apple Watch with a tiny display. It also isn’t very impressive on Macs, which of course lack (for now) both touch and OLED. Once Apple makes those Mac hardware upgrades, Liquid Glass will be a lot more fitting.

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AI’s slow (er than expected) take off…

But the fundamental problem is that LLMs don’t get better over time the way a human would. The lack of continual learning is a huge huge problem. The LLM baseline at many tasks might be higher than an average human’s. But there’s no way to give a model high level feedback. You’re stuck with the abilities you get out of the box. You can keep messing around with the system prompt. In practice this just doesn’t produce anything even close to the kind of learning and improvement that human employees experience. The reason humans are so useful is not mainly their raw intelligence. It’s their ability to build up context, interrogate their own failures, and pick up small improvements and efficiencies as they practice a task.

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Fanatic defensiveness of a position is likely a recipe for disaster

The next time you catch yourself getting defensive about something - really defensive, like you’re personally offended that someone would dare question it - maybe pause for a second. Ask yourself: am I defending this because it’s actually good for me, or because I’m scared to imagine alternatives?

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