Journal: March 2023

Journal for March 2023

Monthly retrospective

ToDo

Journal

2023-03-28

While reading Microsoft’s “Semantic Kernel” documentation, I learned about Schillace laws. Gained some good insights from them.

Inspired by Schillace laws, I made a small script that takes natural-language text as input, executes commands written in natural language, and returns the resulting natural-language text. You can connect it using Unix pipelines.

cat document.txt | nlp summarize | nlp keywords

(Added in May 2025: I recommend using Simon Willison’s LLM CLI.)

2023-03-26

Wrote up some notes on the steering task.

2023-03-20

An article about problems in the US effective altruism community, including pressuring women members into polyamory as “more rational/efficient” and grooming young women. The idea was so good, but the community practicing it seems to be rotting.

time.com/6252617/effective-altruism-sexual-harassment/

2023-03-18

The trap in thinking “AI only improves productivity by about 20%; it won’t make jobs disappear”: if individuals’ productivity rises by an average of 20%, a company that hired five people will hire about four, so one job has disappeared.

2023-03-05

Looked into Peter Singer’s views on AI, transhumanism, and ethics.