AI on rkempe’s blog

Some Interesting Things I’ve Read/Watched: Link Dump #5

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:00:04 -0500

I am still trying to get rid of my backlog of links I wanted to post about, so please bear with me.

Some Interesting Things I’ve Read/Watched: Link Dump #4

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:04:20 -0500

I am currently doing what I am going to call “spring cleaning” on my blog. What this means is that I want to get rid of a huge backlog of articles and things I started writing about in the past because I have lots of ideas for new things I want to do here (how shocking), and I’m honestly not super happy with the direction this blog has been taking. I don’t think I write enough about my own ideas, or about the things I spend hours learning about. In fact, I don’t think I write enough at all.

Some Interesting Things I’ve Read/Watched: Link Dump #3

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:20:43 -0500

Hi! Here is a linkdump. I told myself I would post these with really minimal context because I am too busy to summarize these things and have a really giant backlog of links I’ve been wanting to post, but uh, the writer in me won out and I failed. Some of these have way more description than others. But I do also have quotes I’ve pulled for some of them, so maybe that will help make this post more interesting.

Help, I’m Drowning in Articles About the Dumpster Fire That Is AI (Ep. 1)

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 22:54:34 -0400

I have been compiling a list of articles and academic papers I come across about AI, since trying to understand what it’s doing to society is now one of my obsessions. There is, alas, no good way to review all of these articles. I now have a four page document filled with links to articles about AI, and it’s still getting things added to it at least on a weekly basis. So, uh. This might become an ongoing series.

Linkdump: Interesting Things I Looked At (Very) Recently (2025-08-12)

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:07:33 -0400

Most of these are from today, but some are from yesterday, and a few are from last week. The descriptions will be short, since I am short on time.

Some Interesting Things I’ve Read Lately, Episode 3

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:23:47 -0400

You know the drill. In the last episode I did of this series, I said the next one would be coming shortly, huh?

Yeah, right. I lied. These come out when they come out.

Some Interesting Things I’ve Read/Watched: Link Dump #2

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:34:26 -0400

Here’s another linkdump—a list of links to stuff I thought was interesting but likely won’t get to properly reviewing any time soon.¹

I reserve the right to more fully review any of these article at a later date, of course. (Though at this point, it’s extremely unlikely to ever happen.)

Getting to the End of the Thought; or, Why Write in the Age of AI?

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:14:25 -0400

I’ve been thinking a lot about the value of writing recently, especially in regard to how it’s been influenced by the advent of generative AI. In the past few months, I’ve had a lot of conversations in which people claimed that generative AI is just as good at writing as humans now, or better, in many cases. While I agree that AI generation tools are, at this point, better at the mechanics of writing than the average person, I have always found their outputs to be shallow and devoid of interesting surprises.

Some Interesting Things I’ve Read/Watched: Link Dump #1

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 22:07:57 -0400

I keep coming across articles (and occasionally videos, and occasionally fiction or poetry) online that I want to share and comment on, but I recently realized that I will never have time to fully comment on everything I read that I find interesting. So I’m pulling another page out of Cory Doctorow’s book: here is a dump of links to cool stuff, along with some (hopefully very) brief descriptions of why I found these articles interesting. (Also, here is a link to a link dump where Doctorow ¹ talks about link blogging. It might be interesting for you to look at.)