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April 2025

How do you solve a problem like ChatGPT?
LLMs have disrupted college teaching and not in a good way. But there is a solution, it just involves technology, enforcement, and sanctions--three…
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Shreeharsh Kelkar
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Why is there so much A.G.I. talk? And what can we do about it?
You can tell all kinds of stories about why A.G.I. talk exists but it is really built into the DNA of the computational work that goes into building AI…
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Shreeharsh Kelkar
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The Janine Chronicles, Cont'd
What is our ideal woke type actually thinking and doing?
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March 2025

How should AI be regulated?
There is no way to regulate "AI" because the term does not mean much. It would be better to regulate AI *applications* instead, and even better to start…
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Shreeharsh Kelkar
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A remembrance of Kevin Drum and his time-series charts
Kevin Drum's writing was crystal-clear, heterodox, very opinionated, and often illustrated with time-series charts. Here's how I learned to love those…
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Shreeharsh Kelkar
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The "A.G.I." category hinders rather than helps in thinking about technological change and human displacement.
"Programs building programs to build super-programs" is not how successful technologies get made and succeed. LLMs will be consequential but it will…
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Shreeharsh Kelkar
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