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You've seen the movies. The hero takes an arrow to the shoulder, snaps the shaft, grits his teeth, and keeps fighting. Eventually, he pulls it out in a tent, pours a little whiskey on it, and is ready for the…
Read More →/feed/json/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/sitemap.xml/feed/The dramatic decline in religious affiliation everyone’s been panicking about is partly an illusion. For decades, people checked ‘Christian’ on surveys not because they believed, but because it was the social default. The rise of the ‘nones’ isn’t a collapse of faith — it’s a correction in honesty. The data was always inflated, and the real story is about what we’re finally willing to admit.
Startups like Tokenless promise to slash your AI bills by automatically routing tasks to cheaper models. But there’s a massive flaw in this logic: caching. When you switch models mid-session, you destroy the hot cache that normally cuts input costs by 90%. The more you optimize for routing, the less you benefit from caching.
When 97 ‘unreleased’ Super Mario Bros. & Duck Hunt cartridges were found in a Wisconsin warehouse, headlines screamed about a ‘never seen before’ discovery. But the real story isn’t the novelty—it’s how physical media captures the messy, unofficial variations that digital archives completely erase. Authenticity isn’t a checksum; it’s a paper trail.
Tyler Cowen thinks we’ll learn to love AI writing, but the truth is darker. AI doesn’t create new value—it repackages human ideas into easily consumable summaries. The real revolution isn’t about machines thinking; it’s about humans realizing they can’t charge for pre-chewed ideas anymore.
The public harassment of Anthony Fauci isn’t just petty political revenge. It’s a calculated rehearsal for broader state control over objective knowledge. When a government attacks the very scientific authority it relies on, it’s not looking for a cure—it’s looking for a monopoly on truth.
The internet is drowning in AI-generated garbage, but the real problem isn’t the bots. It’s us. Every time we leave a comment pointing out the obvious, we feed the algorithm and bury the community. Here’s why we need to stop performing our outrage and start using the tools that actually work.
AI is driving the marginal cost of software to zero, creating a utopian dream of free apps. But the nightmare is that the only sustainable business models left are extractive: ads, addiction, and lock-in. This article explains why your favorite apps are getting worse — and what it means for creators and users alike.
Mitchell Hashimoto’s Superlogical is building a unified control plane for AI agents that effectively gives them super-root access to your entire infrastructure. The terminal isn’t dying—it’s becoming the perfect interface for agents. But this power comes with a catastrophic risk: one hallucination, one rogue command, and your entire stack goes down. We need to talk about agent security before we hand over the keys.
AI detection tools are being used to accuse creators with zero evidence, turning suspicion into punishment. A Substack case shows the tool is unreliable, yet it’s treated as authoritative. The real danger isn’t AI content—it’s that anyone can now be flagged as AI, with no way to prove innocence.
Researchers trained a generative AI on billions of Minecraft blocks, achieving unprecedented control over 3D world generation. The twist? This blocky game might be the fastest path to teaching AI spatial reasoning — the missing link for robotics and autonomous agents.