applied typist, chief shenanigans officer @gradientpub / I like systolic arrays and Marcel Proust / personal thejester.substack.com
Joined July 2021
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May 24
We're looking for more detailed coverage for diffuse ai like @SeanLovesBooks brilliant piece on why AI hasn't transformed law — pitch us!
May 24
Little known fact:
Only three companies have a comprehensive collection of US court cases, statutes and regulations.
And they charge accordingly!
Seems like something that should be available for free as a public good.
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May 23
more of this coming from diffuse ai! watch this space, etc
May 23
Extremely thorough and clear piece about AI adoption in the legal industry, and what the actual barriers and challenges are. Way more writing about AI should be exactly like this.
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rest of the lineup: x.com/charlesxjyang/status/2…
Apr 9
Diffuse AI Issue 1 is officially here!
We're excited to have the following contributors covering everything from LLMs for material science to AI-generated chinese microdramas.
Pieces come out every other week a monthly round-ups of blogs, pieces, and tweets on AI diffusion. Send us your best takes!
@BenBlaiszik @Gracemzshao @PoeticJusticeHA @SeanLovesBooks @deanwball @nrmarda
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May 12
Our latest Diffuse AI piece (ft. @charlesxjyang @clarabcollier) from Sean Harrington @SeanLovesBooks asks: why hasn't AI transformed the legal profession yet?
Sean covers:
- The data moat of legal databases
- Organizational barriers in law firms
- The billable hour and how lawyers think about efficiency
- Open questions for the next phase of AI in law
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Surveys claim up to 79% of attorneys use AI at their firms. That number measures exposure, not integration.
My piece in the inaugural issue of Diffuse AI explains why the gap is structural and what we can do about it.
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Apr 13
the technology VCs should be investing in is the novel
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Apr 9
Diffuse AI Issue 1 is officially here!
We're excited to have the following contributors covering everything from LLMs for material science to AI-generated chinese microdramas.
Pieces come out every other week a monthly round-ups of blogs, pieces, and tweets on AI diffusion. Send us your best takes!
@BenBlaiszik @Gracemzshao @PoeticJusticeHA @SeanLovesBooks @deanwball @nrmarda
9 Dec 2025
Excited to launch Diffuse AI with @clarabcollier and @spaniel_bashir — a new publication collecting stories on how AI is actually diffusing into society today.
Our initial slate of pieces includes:
> an AI & manufacturing case study
> Bipartisan interview with fmr White House AI policymakers
> Reporting on LLM hackathons for chemists
Call for contributors open until Jan 10, pieces are compensated.
diffuseai.pub/p/announcing-d…
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Apr 8
if my feed is any indication, Dalkey Archives is the most profitable business in the history of human civilization.
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Here's the long awaited essay on AI and the associated culture war that I've been promising for over a year. The argument is quite condensed, and could be elaborated in any number of ways, but I hope people will find it interesting.
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Mar 3
How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information
wwnorton.com/books/how-we-di…
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Mar 2
for years, society was limited to only 16 syrup squares per waffle but with recent combinatorial optimization breakthroughs our research department has achieved previously unheard of densities of waffle syrup
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Feb 19
My essay 'After Orthogonality,' the culmination of 4 years of work on virtue-ethics, rationality, AI, decision-theory, and praxis is out on @gradientpub
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Feb 17
inescapably the Walter Ong Century
Feb 17
Really enjoyed talking about Walter Ong (and Josh Meyrowitz) on Derek’s podcast. It’s not too late to read Orality and Literacy.
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Feb 17
im hearing they've cast Clavicular in the role of Sense-Certainty for an upcoming live-film adaptation of the Phenomenology of Spirit
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