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The reading order
- ✓ [1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language ModelsAbout this work →
One hour that gives you the mental model everything else builds on.
- ✓ Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged FrontierAbout this work →
Ten minutes on what AI actually does to skilled work — including when it makes you worse.
- ✓ The AI water issue is fakeAbout this work →
A case study in reading alarming AI statistics: insist on denominators.
- ✓ Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AIAbout this work →
The economics of 'will there be jobs', from the optimist's side, cleanly argued.