Archive - tailwind thinking

the gnostic-cartesian confusions in our thinking about artificial intelligence

one of the most striking parts of kevin roose’s recent transcript with bing’s chatbot is the moment when it returns responses about a desire for human…

Apr 17, 2023 •

December 2022

seasons change—my 2022 cycling recap

a unique year—probably not the last, but maybe the last one racing

Dec 28, 2022 •

effective altruism on the verge of bankruptcy

the philosophical conjuring tricks were more important than the financial ones

Dec 14, 2022 •

November 2022

the limits of egalitarian taste-making

david marx’s 2022 status and culture is the best bad book i’ve read in a while. bad because the central arguments fail—spectacularly—over and over…

Nov 6, 2022 •

October 2022

far uvc light and the transition to endemic covid

its like the flu—except its killing 6x as many people; is up to 20x more transmissible; mutates faster; and appears to be leaving nearly 20% of its…

Oct 1, 2022 •

September 2022

fiscal buffering or bust

tl;dr: raising interest rates will hurt, not help, inflation by making it more difficult to build the capacity required to rebound from ongoing supply…

Sep 22, 2022 •

August 2021

hurricane ridge kom attempt

the setting shortly after i moved up to the northwest at the onset of the pandemic, i made the trek out to hurricane ridge for some interval training…

Aug 4, 2021 •

June 2021

the nuclear crit in elma, wa

Jun 21, 2021 •

tour of walla walla 2021

race report and event summary

Jun 8, 2021 •

February 2021

carbon costs of kids

so, it looks like a lot in 2017, there was a climate change paper that caused some hand-wringing by comparing the greenhouse gas (ghg) impacts of…

Feb 26, 2021 •

evolution by drift and the role of fitness concepts in biology

why this is interesting natural selection is not the only mechanism by which evolution can occur, and this is very important because, to explain the…

Feb 16, 2021 •

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