There is a paragraph in the middle of Mark Zuckerberg’s new essay on superintelligence where he describes baking with his young daughter. His AI agent plans the recipes. It orders the ingredients. It offers suggestions while the two of them work. He offers this as evidence that the future is already good, and it is…
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An Update on “Wear Sunscreen”
If you have not read the 1997 newspaper advice column or listened to the 1999 spoken word poem, you need to do that first. Enable Two-Factor Authentication Ladies and gentlemen of the internet of 2026: Enable two-factor authentication. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, two-factor authentication would be it. The…
The Tomb Was Empty, and So Was the Noise
“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” — Philippians 4:8 Forty days ago, I gave up the news for Lent. I was ready to be deprived, but I was not deprived. What I…