Archive - Strange Loop Canon

What can LLMs never do?

On goal drift and lower reliability. Or, why can't LLMs play Conway's Game Of Life?

Apr 23 •

Ode to software

Apr 9 •

We all live on a knife's edge, and it's fine

Or: How we weaponised serendipity

Apr 2 •

March 2024

LLMs have special intelligence, not general, and that's plenty.

“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”

Mar 13 •

February 2024

Google had a very bad week

Gemini's paradox

Feb 29 •

The mystery of the garage

Feb 22 •

nullius in verba

Feb 16 •

January 2024

Evaluations are all we need

On analysing talent in LLMs

Jan 17 •

December 2023

State of the Canon

Dec 30, 2023 •

Discovery is the original sin of the modern age

technology, living post scarcity, and how to find what you want

Dec 21, 2023 •

Disruption starts at the margins, but doesn't stop there

Contra Hoel on AI and its supply paradox

Dec 11, 2023 •

The age of access

the great polarisation theory, and the death of professions

Dec 6, 2023 •

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