Archive - Theorist AI

A Practitioner's Guide for Experiential Learning

Mar 22 • Nik Bear Brown

The Supervision Problem: What Automate This Couldn't Name

A literary review essay — Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World, Christopher Steiner (2012)

Mar 21 • Nik Bear Brown

Name it → Teach it → Measure it

The three-stage sequence that educational reform keeps failing to complete

Mar 15 • Nik Bear Brown

The Comfortable Pessimist Revisited: Mitchell, Meaning, and the Tier We Won't Teach

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

Mar 14 • Nik Bear Brown

The Simulation Mistake: On What Algorithms to Live By Gets Right and Wrong

Algorithms to Live By, Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

Mar 14 • Nik Bear Brown

The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

The Ladder and the Hole Beneath It

Mar 14 • Nik Bear Brown

The Machinery and Its Missing Occupant

I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter

Mar 14 • Nik Bear Brown

Knowing Enough to Distrust the Machine

A new taxonomy of human intelligence — and why the curriculum you received is the wrong preparation for the machines you're already using.

Mar 14 • Nik Bear Brown

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