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Some Things Are Too Important to Let AI Do Them

May 23, 2025

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14 min read

Some Things Are Too Important to Let AI Do Them

The Getting Thing Done mindset continues in calls to have AI automate everything important in your life.

Aaron Ross Powell
Aaron Ross Powell

Technology

Why Tech Bros Overestimate AI's Creative Abilities

Mar 18, 2025

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10 min read

Why Tech Bros Overestimate AI's Creative Abilities

Silicon Valley's overconfidence in the imminent arrival of Artificial General Intelligence stems from a combination of limited understanding of the humanities, an insular culture, and a business model that incentivizes exaggerated claims about AI's capabilities.

Aaron Ross Powell
Aaron Ross Powell

Technology

Selling Out vs. Just Selling: The Weirdness of "Content" Monetization

Feb 13, 2025

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14 min read

Selling Out vs. Just Selling: The Weirdness of "Content" Monetization

The rise of the personal brand has led to a focus on selling oneself rather than one's creations.

Aaron Ross Powell
Aaron Ross Powell

Technology

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The Politics of "Unbiased" Conservative Search Engines

Dec 19, 2024

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10 min read

The Politics of "Unbiased" Conservative Search Engines

It's impossible to build a search engine that isn't biased and doesn't manipulate results. But it is possible to convince conservatives you can.

Aaron Ross Powell
Aaron Ross Powell

Technology

The Limits of AI Learning: Why Drilling Down Can Lead You Astray

Dec 13, 2024

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8 min read

The Limits of AI Learning: Why Drilling Down Can Lead You Astray

The more you ask follow-up questions, the worse the answers get.

Aaron Ross Powell
Aaron Ross Powell

Technology

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Twitter and the Confusion of Medium and Message

Dec 4, 2024

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7 min read

Twitter and the Confusion of Medium and Message

Journalists‘ attachment to Twitter stems from a conflation of the platform with the act of journalism itself.

Aaron Ross Powell
Aaron Ross Powell

Technology

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Why, Despite the Numbers, Bluesky Feels Bigger than Threads

Nov 19, 2024

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5 min read

Why, Despite the Numbers, Bluesky Feels Bigger than Threads

Threads has significantly more active users than Bluesky, but feels a lot smaller. Why?

Aaron Ross Powell
Aaron Ross Powell

Technology

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It's Okay if Your Social Media Platform is a Bubble

Nov 18, 2024

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10 min read

It's Okay if Your Social Media Platform is a Bubble

Is it wrong to have a social media feed primarily of people you agree with?

Aaron Ross Powell
Aaron Ross Powell

Technology

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How to Use Substack's Recommendation Network With a Non-Substack Newsletter

Nov 15, 2024

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6 min read

How to Use Substack's Recommendation Network With a Non-Substack Newsletter

A simple method using automatic email forwards and Zapier.

Aaron Ross Powell
Aaron Ross Powell

Technology

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The Staggering Promise of AI Tutors

Nov 5, 2024

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8 min read

The Staggering Promise of AI Tutors

Chatbots can help students understand concepts when their teachers can't.

Aaron Ross Powell
Aaron Ross Powell

Philosophy

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Twitter/X as a Bubble for Bad Ethics

Aug 21, 2024

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5 min read

Twitter/X as a Bubble for Bad Ethics

X is no longer representative of the national discourse. But many of our journalists and thought leaders believe it is—and that's bad for them, and for our national character.

Aaron Ross Powell
Aaron Ross Powell

Technology

Substack Doesn't Want You to Leave

Feb 28, 2024

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9 min read

Substack Doesn't Want You to Leave

Substack is in trouble, and their recent feature releases are evidence of that.

Aaron Ross Powell
Aaron Ross Powell

Technology

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How Social Media Tricks our Brains — and Destroys our Politics

Feb 17, 2024

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7 min read

How Social Media Tricks our Brains — and Destroys our Politics

Social media convinces us our small communities are representative of the whole and tells us we’re more right than we really are.

Aaron Ross Powell
Aaron Ross Powell

Aaron Ross Powell

Political, cultural, technology, and media commentary from a philosophical and radical liberal perspective. Home of ReImagining Liberty.

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