Evaluation
Standing section
How we measure machine ability, why the measurements decay, and what a serious evaluation would have to look like.
5 essays
Contents/Sections
Sections
Standing sections
We keep the publication narrow on purpose. Three standing sections, each a question we keep returning to rather than a subject area we try to cover.
The three sections
Labour & Work
Standing section
What automation has historically done to occupations, who absorbed the cost, and why aggregate employment figures answer the wrong question.
2 essaysPolicy
Standing section
Regulation, procurement, compute thresholds and open weights — read as decisions with trade-offs rather than as a contest between good and bad actors.
2 essays
What we do not cover
A publication is defined at least as much by what it declines to write about.
- Funding rounds, valuations and company gossip
- Product launch coverage without an argument attached
- Predictions with dates attached to them
- Prompt technique, which changes faster than we publish
- Anything we would need a press embargo to write
- Speculation dressed as reporting