Archive - Simon’s Newsletter

Default Advantages AI Will Have Over Humans

Even human level AI could be transformative

Dec 10, 2023 •

July 2023

Why Can't America Teach Writing?

A blogger's lament

Jul 25, 2023 •

March 2023

Bing Chat is a Precursor to Something Legitimately Dangerous

AI harm might be closer than we think

Mar 1, 2023 •

February 2023

Substack Decupled My Subscriber Growth

How I ran an A/B test to decide whether I should move to Substack

Feb 18, 2023 •

January 2023

I Hired 5 People to Sit Behind Me and Make Me Productive for a Month

Tripling my productivity with one weird trick

Jan 30, 2023 •

October 2022

Elastic Productivity Tools

Like most tech bros, I’m a little too interested in productivity and optimizing my life.

Oct 30, 2022 •

Friends From First Principles

Throughout my life, friends were always an unintentional byproduct.

Oct 20, 2022 •

DALL·E 2 vs $10 Fiverr Commissions

Recently I wrote a blog post that had a concept I wanted to show graphically.

Oct 8, 2022 •

Privacy As A Moral Buffer

Epistemic Status: Overly Opinionated

Oct 7, 2022 •

Generating Sparse And Dense Random Graphs

Suppose you want to generate a graph with V vertices and E edges, such that each graph (i.e.

Oct 4, 2022 •

September 2022

The Final Boss Of Hinge

Hates slow walkers

Sep 18, 2022 •

How I Take Book Notes

Lately, I’ve been reading exclusively physical books.

Sep 6, 2022 •

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