Early humans understood something we’ve forgotten
They knew that: not everything must be named, not everything must be fixed, mystery is not failure, uncertainty is livable. They carried knowledge in stories, not assertions.
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We Don’t Know More Than Before. We Just Pretend
We like to tell ourselves that knowledge accumulates in a straight line. That each generation knows more than the last.
God Was the First Moral Technology
Long before humans built laws, institutions, or machines, they confronted a terrifying realization: intelligence does not guarantee goodness. We could plan.
We Already Know Enough.
There is a comforting myth we tell ourselves: that what separates us from catastrophe is knowledge we have not yet acquired. Better data.
Who Decides our Future?
Listen to this AI episode now We keep talking about artificial intelligence as if the breakthrough will be a cleaner model, a smarter reasoning engine, a prettier interface, a new trick that makes the…
How AI Reopened Sweden’s Greatest Cold Case
In a guarded subterranean vault in Stockholm, rows of metal shelves stretch longer than a city block, crammed with archive boxes labeled “Palme Murder Investigation.” For decades these boxes gathered dust, filled with 700,000…
Beyond Human Consciousness, Rethinking Artificial Minds
Is it a fundamental error to compare machine consciousness to human consciousness? Equating the two is misleading – a category error.
Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose in Life.
In April of 1958, Hunter S. Thompson was 22 years old when he wrote this letter to his friend Hume Logan in response to a request for life advice.
Partial differential equations and low-level AI hierarchy.
Asking questions, that's all science and research is. Make sure you use the research assistant level companion in DeepResearch from OAI.
Memory increase?
Today’s tight memory constraints on o1keeps the power usage low, and security is easier to maintain because there is less space for exploitable vulnerabilities. But as soon as these systems must handle more complex…