Open Weights, Brainwashing, and Unhackable Morality
We need safety designs that assume full access to model weights
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DeepSeek Foreshadows Recursive Self-Improvement
No fanfare, no papers—just abrupt capability shifts
Charles Darwin: The Godfather of Reinforcement Learning
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The Product Lifecycle of Human Labor
Will humans become an idle resource?
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Overall, I think 2025 will be the year the zeitgeist shifts
Consumption Must Flow
The fallout from AI’s collision with the labor force
What is a Computer?
Meditations on the computer on the eve of superintelligence
A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
A meditation on the culmination of the computer revolution
The Origin of the Attention Mechanism in LLMs
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The Big Opportunity in AI: Legacy Industry
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The Singularity and its Discontents
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The Real Risk of AGI: Geopolitical Disequilibria
Ultimately, the risks of AGI are not technical but human
Hollywood In a Laptop
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Founders of a New World
We’re not merely inventing a new technology, we’re birthing a new civilization
The Twilight of Labor
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The Product Lifecycle of Human Labor
Will humans become an idle resource?
What is a Computer?
Meditations on the computer on the eve of superintelligence
A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
A meditation on the culmination of the computer revolution
Hollywood In a Laptop
What happens if anyone can make a blockbuster?