Comparison: But the internet was always a dangerous place. We’re just waking up from a trance. . . . Rubin told me that the internet is entering a ‘valley of pain.‘ Matteo Wong, writing about recent cyber-attacks on various parts of the internet quotes a silicon valley exec who invokes a trance and a place of danger to suggest what the internet is becoming. Context: But the internet was always a dangerous place. We’re just waking up from a trance. AI agents can now be deplo

Comparison: Regardless, the basic units of an AI model having seemingly arbitrary, multitudinous functions would make it very difficult to understand what is going on under the hood. . . . If generative-AI models are actually legible under the hood, that would undoubtedly help make the technology safer. Matteo Wong, writing about a tech essay written by AI researcher Nick Cammarata—and about AI-world responses to that essay—reaches back to the 20th Century tech that changed l

Comparison: President Trump walked into history dragging a long tail of litigation, accusation and lawsuits behind him. Conservative writer Peggy Noonan notes that Donald J. Trump's years as chief executive has taken the presidency into unknown territory. And she's not hopeful that U.S. culture can work through the corrupt implications to public life and service. For word nerds observe in the context below that Noonan does a mash-up of two stealth metaphors (threshold, and sk