Even more good news for the future of neurosymbolic AI

And vindication for Apple’s unfairly maligned 2025 reasoning paper

Dragoncatcher: Tinfoil

Pluralism in practice

Teaching with and without AI

A peculiar mixture of omniscience and impotence ⊗ Electrostates & physics

No.398 — A scathing LLM YouTuber ⊗ “We ran a business LARP” ⊗ Making Sense of Slow AI ⊗ Solar power and chili peppers ⊗ Skeleton of Three Musketeers hero d’Artagnan

AI Will Be Met With Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It

It has started

The biggest advance in AI since the LLM

Why Claude Code changes everything

Pluralistic: Don't Be Evil (11 Apr 2026)

Today's links Don't Be Evil: Evil genius is just a lack of shame. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: FBI x Trotsky; Jakob Nielsen x headlines; Floppy disk stained glass; Zero

Weekly Top Picks #118

Anthropic's $30B revenue / China won the global race / AI scapegoating layoffs / Mythos / Gen Z against AI / "AI is conscious?" is the wrong question

mist is now open source and looking for interop

A brief update on mist, my ephemeral Markdown editor with Google Docs-style comments and suggested edits: mist is now open source with an MIT license, and the mist repo is here on GitHub. (Try mist no

Dragoncatcher: Reasoning models don't so much think as navigate

Pluralistic: Canny Valley and Creative Commons (10 Apr 2026)

Today's links Canny Valley and Creative Commons: Another bite at the apple. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Bidenomics needs to be bigger; Al Franken's balanced war budget;

🍪 TWiC: Intel with TeraFab+Sambanova+Google, Samsung and Anthropic 🚀, AGI CPU in China

This week in chips: Is Intel back?

The Solitaire Shuffle

A meditation on the game of Solitaire and its endless variations, which go well beyond what you can find in Windows 3.1. Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from David Buck, who has been obsessed with a

Three reasons to think that the Claude Mythos announcement from Anthropic was overblown

No need to panic just yet

What Happens When AI Gets Too Good at One Thing

Thoughts on Claude Mythos

AI Policy Primer (#24)

Identifying agents, self-improvement, and artificial clouds

Pluralistic: Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (09 Apr 2026)

Today's links Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender": The history of digital rights, from the very beginning to this very moment. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Tariffs and mon

Inside the AI Industry's Most Expensive Mistake

The absurdity of thinking in tokens

To Forecast AI's Impact on Biosecurity, We Asked: Why are Attacks So Rare?

Nine factors that practitioners say make bioweapons rare.

What should we take from Anthropic’s (possibly) terrifying new report on Mythos?

Not many facts are on the ground, but here are some starting points for sober thinking

NASA on flickr.com

NASA Johnson The NASA flickr account has stunning high-resolution images from the Artemis II trip around the moon.

Pluralistic: Process knowledge (08 Apr 2026)

Today's links Process knowledge: We also serve who stand and wash. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Chicken Little; "Anya's Ghost"; Ad-tech's algorithmic cruelty. Upcoming a

Dragoncatcher: The Galactica option

Pork & Puppetry

What inspired the semi-viral fake GIMP trailer that recently fluttered around FOSS circles? The creator and puppeteer behind Pork Johnson explains. Look, I haven’t necessarily changed my mind about G

MicroLEDs vs. Lasers: The Linewidth Tradeoff

Why spectral purity defines the speed limits of datacenter optics

Dragoncatcher: Sweat the details

Pluralistic: Switzerland's Goldilocks fiber (07 Apr 2026)

Today's links Switzerland's Goldilocks fiber: Public provision is a layered question. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: EU appoints henhouse fox (copyright); Emacs x Tron: Le

How to Think About AI Like a Long-Term Investor

Compound interest rules your life—and everything else

Sam Altman, unconstrained by the truth

New reporting from the New Yorker vindicates concerns that were first raised here

AI has limits, even if many AI people can't see them

On Ben Recht's fantastic new book

Import AI 452: Scaling laws for cyberwar; rising tides of AI automation; and a puzzle over gDP forecasting

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Uh oh, there’s a scaling war for

Dragoncatcher: The bat of fate

Pluralistic: Your boss wants to use surveillance data to cut your wages (06 Apr 2026)

Today's links Your boss wants to use surveillance data to cut your wages: Tech rights are labor rights (again). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Arthur C Clarke v Buddhist m

Winter Garden: Where is it like to be a language model?

The back story behind the first “$1.8 Billion” dollar “AI Company”

AI isn’t the only thing behind Medvi

YouTube Recommendations

A couple recent YouTube videos that seem very different are echoing similar, important themes. ContraPoints' meditation on The Saw movies is excellent and (spoiler alert) discusses themes of retributi

Geist in the machine ⊗ The prospect of Butlerian Jihad

No.397 — Ending the AI arms race ⊗ Insight and future-fit decisions ⊗ Better AI creative collaborators ⊗ Progressive Paris ⊗ The asteroid ryugu and the building blocks of life

The Pluralistic Universe of Michael Pollan

AI Log reviews A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness

Pluralistic: EU ready to cave to Trump on tech (04 Apr 2026)

Today's links EU ready to cave to Trump on tech: Surrendermonkeys ahoy. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Among a Thousand Fireflies"; "fiscal" not "physical"; Ontario's pus

A sleep aid

Mostly I go to sleep very easily. Like 3 minutes from lights out, max. I’m content, I exercise, I burn my tokens each day, I think all that helps. Often I wake early and think. I’m protective over wha