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Resonant Thoughts: Kevin Roose’s “The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence” (2026)
“nobody—not even the people who train AI models for a living—knows exactly how large language models work” (226). “There was no end. Nobody would ever agree on what AGI was, or when we’d reached it. There were too many conflicting ideas and moving goalposts, and no universally accepted definition of the thing they were all… Continue reading
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Arrows of Attention: 10 Music-Making Heuristics
Get to know a few instruments well so you don’t have to think about how they work when you’re recording. Choose minimalism over maximalism because you can make a piece with a single sound. Stuck? Do one thing. Listen for the drama! Dissonance, surprise, rhythmic friction, and negative space—therein lies music’s energy. Work patiently until… Continue reading
