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Could GPT and Bard actually help blue-collar fortunes?
Global labor markets will be just as directly affected by what GPT-4 and other LLMs cannot do.
Sach Wry
Mar 24
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November 2022
Can natural intelligence judge Artificial Intelligence?
AGI, brain-machine interfaces, 'uploads' etc. can all wait. We have a bigger problem: we don’t yet know if wetware brains should assess predictive…
Sach Wry
Nov 18, 2022
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October 2022
Made to order, breakfast and bulletins
A newspaper says news is special, it's not like packaged food. Oh, but it is. And in ways that can inform better journalism.
Sach Wry
Oct 20, 2022
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Made to order, breakfast and bulletins
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September 2022
Faith and Facts - Part II
There are indeed limits to science that leave a gap for faith to step in. Just not the sort you'd think.
Sach Wry
Sep 15, 2022
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August 2022
The Wages of North-Atlantic bias
A community of extremely talented and well-meaning people intend to do good better. What might they learn if they lived where they want to have an…
Sach Wry
Aug 20, 2022
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July 2022
Having children and having - part 2
For couples with moral doubts about raising a family in the backdrop of climate change, two New York Times columns took a blinkered American view to…
Sach Wry
Jul 14, 2022
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June 2022
Having children and having – Part 1
Abortion as a question is so complex that even the most nuanced and balanced conversations, even two such conversations combined, can leave things out.
Sach Wry
Jun 25, 2022
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When will English speak to all the Englishes?
Black English, Indian English, Hinglish and Singlish, all have different relationships to Standard English and Globish. What’s a unifying way to think…
Sach Wry
Jun 13, 2022
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When will English speak to all the Englishes?
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'Natural' Language Processing. Is it though?
Are we overestimating the machines or misprizing mimesis? What if we're ill-equipped to tell! At least, let’s give the children in your life due credit…
Sach Wry
Jun 3, 2022
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May 2022
The intercontinental pull mistaken for Liberalism
Chatter about deglobalization and allied blocs is swelling. This time around, a more honest ‘accounting’ of the interests of nations might give us a…
Sach Wry
May 27, 2022
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Faith and facts in the 2020s – Part 1
Respect for religion and the religious can better reconcile with science, if it keeps up with updated ideas (from other sections of the NYT!).
Sach Wry
May 20, 2022
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The price we pay in explanations
Inflation might be the one thing consumers of news care most about. Explainers from economists tend to slide into just-so stories. Care in bridging that…
Sach Wry
May 15, 2022
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