Archive - Shakos Metaheuristics

The Post-Ironic Right

Or: A Response to Hanania

Sep 12, 2024 •

WWII & Convenient Causality

In which I can't help but respond to MartyrMade's thread

Sep 10, 2024 •

August 2024

Invoking Foucault: Why Foucault Is Our Most Cited Public Intellectual

My own thoughts on Hanania's Foucault question

Aug 25, 2024 •

May 2024

Why Political Theory is Overrated

It's useful to learn defensive skills against bad arguments

May 5, 2024 •

January 2024

A Techno-Trad Take on Fertility

We Need Modern Incentives for Modern Women

Jan 14, 2024 •

My Top films/songs/books of 2023

As indexed by the year I experienced them -- not the year of release

Jan 2, 2024 •

November 2023

The Core Primitive of AI: Experimental Learning

How LLMs can effectively extrapolate beyond their training data

Nov 28, 2023 •

September 2023

Larry Summers’ Chart is Fine

There are no hard rules behind data analysis

Sep 6, 2023 •

May 2023

Some Thoughts on AI & Correlated Risks

But really, this is an introspective blog post

May 14, 2023 •

January 2023

Does the Textual Corpus for Large Language Models Have Enough Information to Train an AGI?

Given the size and contents of our textual data, probably.

Jan 3, 2023 •

December 2022

Why Business Data Science Irritates Me

Some thoughts following ryxcommar's post

Dec 19, 2022 •

September 2022

History as an Empirical Science

I weigh in on Noah Smith's argument with Bret Devereaux

Sep 6, 2022 •

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