author - oman observer

Inside the Democratic Party — in its backrooms and its group chats, its conferences and its online flame wars — an increasingly bitter debate has taken hold over what the party needs to become to...

I seem to be having a very different experience with GPT-5, the newest iteration of OpenAI’s flagship model, from most everyone else. The commentariat consensus is that GPT-5 is a dud, a...

In 2021, I interviewed Ted Chiang, one of the great living sci-fi writers. Something he said to me then keeps coming to mind now.“I tend to think that most fears about AI are best understood as...

It’s often said that hindsight is 20/20. As far as politics goes, I’ve never believed it. Much punditry relies on what I’ve come to think of as the counterfactual fallacy. It goes like this: The...