Andrew Wu

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Green insisted that he’s only used ChatGPT to “locate papers and other resources for learning about topics,” and that the words and the “takes” have still been his. At the same time, he admitted it was fair to criticize him for “diluting” himself.
YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’ | TechCrunch
I know what broke my bounds in this instance. I have a regular reminder in my phone which shows me a picture of Alex Pretti.
Why I Left Google DeepMind
Describing a singer’s voice in general terms is one of the most futile exercises in writing. I have to do it every once in a while for reviews and find myself coming back to the same words: lilting, powerful, massive, limpid, rich, smooth, clarion, deep, versatile, what have you. The fact of the matter is, in this case, this woman will make you afraid of her. By the end, she will make you cry.
love's bad infinity - by kate wagner - the late review
[survivor] Zoe's claim that there were psychotic breaks left and right are put through a due diligence triple gauntlet just to say that while yes they can be very common in such settings no actual psychotic breaks were explicitly documented in Leverage.
The Inside Story Of Leverage Research 1.0 : r/SneerClub
That's actually a generous take, personally I think she is so willing to give everyone the benefit of the doubt that the piece borders on being apologetics. Having read the first three parts, it's kind of telling that whenever a victim that previously came forward is mentioned it's noted that they refused to be interviewed, while dear leader Geoff's quotes about how he feels kind of bad about how things went down are everywhere in the article.
The Inside Story Of Leverage Research 1.0 : r/SneerClub
Still, Coefficient Giving cut off funding to Lighthaven in the summer of 2024 after it hosted the Manifest conference, which featured Richard Hanania. (Hanania had previously argued for eugenics and white nationalism in posts under the pseudonym Richard Hoste. He has since apologized for the writings.) And after, Habryka put up his own money to keep the project going.
The Effective-Altruism Comeback
there has never been a significant lurch, forward or backward, anywhere, at any time in the history of organized civilization that did not involve both lawful and unlawful agitation
A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books
But all war is whataboutism. What about your enemy, what about your conditions, what is it about the state of the world in which you live that justifies armed struggle?
A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books
They may be right. But there’s something suspicious in any automatic answer. Set aside the need to say no, of course it was all very bad. We’re here anyway. Put down the sense that it is dangerous to ask—worse, that it is unserious, unadult, vaguely embarrassing to ask—for a moment. It’s just a little essay. It’ll be okay.
A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books
Using burgers as a model system, the generative AI rediscovers the classic Big Mac without explicit supervision
Generative artificial intelligence creates delicious, sustainable, and nutritious burgers | npj Science of Food
stretch his last 12.5 seconds into a timeless experience.
After My Son Died Climbing, I Wrestle With ‘What If'
Traditional forms of civic engagement — from public consultations to protests — might become less effective as the state grows less dependent on human cooperation and more capable of predicting and preempting resistance.
Gradual Disempowerment
Cultural evolution might accelerate beyond human cognitive capabilities, producing artifacts and meanings that humans can neither fully understand nor meaningfully engage with.
Gradual Disempowerment
There was a biographical side to her life, no doubt, though nobody had ever thought to take notes.
Displacement from the self - by Andrew Wu
Hers are stories that literally can’t be summarized—the map is the size of the territory—related in an English so sonically precise and culture-bound that, it has been said, it cannot be usefully translated.
The Polymath of Pittsburgh
I don’t edit this way and frown upon those who do; in fact, the more difficult to pronounce, the better.
Submissions — Socrates on the Beach
Obliterated in some lilied
Duplex: Cento (Jericho Brown)
But human jobs are not simply collections of independent fixed tasks; most jobs require the jobholder to understand how different tasks relate to one another, to adapt to change on the fly, and, more generally, to be flexible based on the open-ended nature of the real world.
The Yale Review | Melanie Mitchell: The Dangerous Unknowns at the…
One unique feature of the course is the integration of generative AI technologies. The way of coding in the era of AI has been revolutionized. I aim to teach you all aspects of statistical computing seamlessly integrated with AI copilot. You will not only learn various cool algorithms but also the workflow of efficient and reproducible programming.
BST236 Computing
In May 2026, Wired revealed that Build American AI used a "dark money" campaign to pay TikTok and Instagram influencers $5,000 per video to promote scripted narratives framing Chinese AI as a "national security threat." According to internal documents and staff at the marketing agency managing the project, the campaign's explicit goal was to "subtly shift public debate" toward the deregulation of AI industries while intentionally avoiding technical discussions regarding AI quality or safety.
Leading the Future
quibbling siblings, sudden children, and sundry personages outside the nuclear. The marred ages of marriages, the indefinitive vortexes of divorces. Mistified friends and stranger strangers. Worsted continues to thicken the crowd of the thinned out.
A Review of Worsted by Garielle Lutz – The Collidescope
With over half a million words in the English language, and many unborn ones awaiting their utterance, as well as the tarnished lexicon genie-lamped into brilliance by her hands, I think and hope that Lutz can run out for words rather than of them, rather than lapse into this character’s mentality: “But she wasn’t much of a reader. A book was just page after page of redistributions of the language.”
A Review of Worsted by Garielle Lutz – The Collidescope
That movement is understood best in the context of its predecessor. The first movement features a delicate, lyrical theme, patterned and predictable in a way that soothes and consoles: everything will be okay. The theme then crystallizes. The harmony, which once swayed gently, back and forth each beat or two, around the home key and in its orbit,8 finds itself now solid, hard-edged, far from home—diminished. The pianist pauses. The listener is led to luxuriate in this sudden stagnancy, which signals the start of an interlude. Slow, regal, chordal, the interlude soon expands into a series of ke…
Against vibes - by Andrew Wu - fanciful filigree flights
This class is open to students of all writing levels and experience.
English CMMU. Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Using Music | Department of English
There’s no speed limit
There’s no speed limit
"The flood"" swept all those people away, Scott? Was it perhaps something else that swept them away, something other than an abstract metaphor? Is anyone responsible for the sweeping?
Scott finally admitting the game he's been playing for 10 years : r/SneerClub
Because the hand has little time for setup and little time to find the next position, the pianist must both attack and release these high notes with great speed and precision, which imposes upon these notes an elegant sparkle. That is to say, the technical difficulty forces the desired effect.
All is Found, for the left hand - by Andrew Wu
‘You will be misunderstood, appropriated, humiliated in death, just as you were in life. Your existence in the memories and words of others will mutate immediately. Your freedom itself, to which your act attests with absolute force, will be denied by those seeking to take or assign exclusive blame. You must choose in full awareness of these facts, without illusions.’ And so he did.
The Foundational Act | Review 31
This isn’t unique to aptitudes for math and CS. It applies to any cluster of traits that seem, from the outside, to hang out a lot: artistic, emotional; accomplished, abstruse; disciplined, overcritical; independent, aloof. A sufficiently developed person will often have a sense of many of the latent variables that govern multiple of their traits, and so their traits will often, from their perspective, be independent.13 For instance, consider the statement “that’s such a math kid thing to think”. Often, it’s an intriguing, entertaining, or meaningful statement to receive. But consider “mmm! i …
Before the game begins - by Espen Slettnes - SPARC JC Blog
Nothing should be ‘beneath’ you—I cleaned my own data for decades, and that granular understanding is exactly what gave me the instincts to identify the most critical scientific problems.
Tianxi Cai named 2026 Mosteller Statistician | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
One of the saddest things about the killings of Good and Pretti is that you could tell that neither of them seemed to know the danger until it was too late. They believed they were operating in some version of the normal state (what Fraenkel called the “normative state”) where the police usually respond with discipline and restraint.
Opinion | ‘We Are Creating the Conditions for a Catastrophe’: Three Columnists on the Shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis - The New York Times
Many things were exempt from the market mechanism which had invaded the Western countries. The German educational system, universities, theatres with artistic standards, great orchestras, and museums enjoyed protection. The political powers, state and municipalities, which had inherited such institutions from absolutism, had left them with a measure of the freedom from the forces of power which dominates the market, just as princes and feudal lords had done up to the nineteenth century.
Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
It is still possible to make one’s way in entertainment, if one is not too obstinate about one’s own concerns, and proves appropriately pliable. Anyone who resists can only survive by fitting in. Once his particular brand of deviation from the norm has been noted by the industry, he belongs to it as does the land-reformer to capitalism. Realistic dissidence is the trademark of anyone who has a new idea in business.
Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
the inferior work has always relied on its similarity with others – on a surrogate identity.
Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
That factor in a work of art which enables it to transcend reality certainly cannot be detached from style; but it does not consist of the harmony actually realised, of any doubtful unity of form and content, within and without, of individual and society; it is to be found in those features in which discrepancy appears: in the necessary failure of the passionate striving for identity.
Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
his departures from the norm are regarded as calculated mutations which serve all the more strongly to confirm the validity of the system.
Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
No medieval theologian could have determined the degree of the torment to be suffered by the damned in accordance with the order of divine love more meticulously than the producers of shoddy epics calculate the torture to be undergone by the hero or the exact point to which the leading lady’s hemline shall be raised. The explicit and implicit, exoteric and esoteric catalogue of the forbidden and tolerated is so extensive that it not only defines the area of freedom but is all-powerful inside it. Everything down to the last detail is shaped accordingly.
Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
stereotyped appropriation of everything, even the inchoate, for the purposes of mechanical reproduction surpasses the rigour and general currency of any “real style,”
Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
Even though the effort required for his response is semi-automatic, no scope is left for the imagination.
Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
The stunting of the mass-media consumer’s powers of imagination and spontaneity does not have to be traced back to any psychological mechanisms; he must ascribe the loss of those attributes to the objective nature of the products themselves, especially to the most characteristic of them, the sound film.
Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
The more intensely and flawlessly his techniques duplicate empirical objects, the easier it is today for the illusion to prevail that the outside world is the straightforward continuation of that presented on the screen.
Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
The whole and the parts are alike; there is no antithesis and no connection. Their prearranged harmony is a mockery of what had to be striven after in the great bourgeois works of art.
Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
The short interval sequence which was effective in a hit song, the hero’s momentary fall from grace (which he accepts as good sport), the rough treatment which the beloved gets from the male star, the latter’s rugged defiance of the spoilt heiress, are, like all the other details, ready-made clichés to be slotted in anywhere; they never do anything more than fulfil the purpose allotted them in the overall plan. Their whole raison d’être is to confirm it by being its constituent parts.
Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
That the difference between the Chrysler range and General Motors products is basically illusory strikes every child with a keen interest in varieties. What connoisseurs discuss as good or bad points serve only to perpetuate the semblance of competition and range of choice. The same applies to the Warner Brothers and Metro Goldwyn Mayer productions.
Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
The public is catered for with a hierarchical range of mass-produced products of varying quality, thus advancing the rule of complete quantification. Everybody must behave (as if spontaneously) in accordance with his previously determined and indexed level, and choose the category of mass product turned out for his type. Consumers appear as statistics on research organisation charts, and are divided by income groups into red, green, and blue areas; the technique is that used for any type of propaganda.
Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
The attitude of the public, which ostensibly and actually favours the system of the culture industry, is a part of the system and not an excuse for it.
Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
The need which might resist central control has already been suppressed by the control of the individual consciousness.
Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
It has made the technology of the culture industry no more than the achievement of standardisation and mass production
Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
circle of manipulation and retroactive need
Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
it is claimed that standards were based in the first place on consumers’ needs, and for that reason were accepted with so little resistance.
Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception