Linklog 5

AI seems to be on my mind a lot lately. I may write a longer post about some of these thoughts; etiquette as a sampling scheme and teaching tacit knowledge feel like interesting directions. Then again, life is busy enough.

Tacit knowledge and coding. It’s interesting to think about the flavors of “senior thinking”—the pattern here certainly isn’t limited to software engineering. OP

Andrew McCalip on orbital data centers. From a quick skim this is about the best thing I’ve read about orbital data centers yet. Suppose orbital data centers happen as described here. What happens to near-term heavy-lift launch pricing? OP

AI is bad UX. I don’t know that anyone has ever made a very good UX for sampling from high dimensional joint distributions, but etiquettes can work well in their native equilibria OP