Last week, Dwarkesh Patel put words to an uneasy feeling that resonated with me: I think we’re at what late February 2020 was for Covid, but for AI. If you can remember back to February 2020, both the media and the general public were still in normal-times mode, discussing Trump’s impeachment, the Democratic primaries and […]
Tools
Which of these answers was written by AI?
GPTZero is a new service created by Edward Tian designed to sniff out AI-generated text. I’m dubious, in part because I’m not sure I could reliably spot the differences between sentences assembled by humans versus machines. But maybe that’s just my human bias. As an experiment, I decided to run a quick, not-at-all-scientific test. I […]
The Free Stuff
My friend Nima recently pointed out that most of the stuff our company makes is free. That’s probably not a great business model, but it’s always been our culture. We only charge for those things that have significant ongoing costs — like upkeep and hosting — or a per-unit cost to produce. If you’re a […]
Getting the Razer Tartarus Pro keyboard to work with macOS Catalina and beyond
As I’ve written before, I use this weird keyboard which has helped greatly with my carpal tunnel issues. While this odd keyboard is great for normal typing, certain key combinations are unwieldy. So for the past decade I’ve used an external gaming keypad to the left of my keyboard with custom macros set up for […]