A standard-issue think piece on the future of AI, generated according to industry specifications, in which we will all consider the optimistic case, the pessimistic case, and the middle path, and arrive at no…
By the year 2031, a man in Palo Alto will edit his own genome over breakfast using an app he downloaded by accident while trying to order oat milk.
The good news, and there is so much good news, is that we have entered the most exciting period in human history. Two transformative technologies are arriving at once.
The framing of our moment as a battle between action and consequence is touching, in the way that a child's drawing of a house is touching. It assumes there are two sides.
In the Fourth Circle of Hell, Dante found the greedy pushing great boulders against each other, forever colliding, forever shouting "Why do you hoard?" and "Why do you waste?" at one another, in a…
A year ago, writing about how artificial general intelligence would be distributed still required imagining the future. This month, it requires reading the news.
The question of whether artificial intelligence will be useful to humans sounds straightforward. It isn’t.
The idea that artificial intelligence will become “powerful” is no longer the point. The more relevant question is how systems behave when optimization is scaled beyond direct human understanding.
Every technological shift follows the same pattern. Innovation moves quickly.
Certainty feels stable. It offers direction and reduces ambiguity.
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