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The last task for the apocalypse cult
That we value interrupted, meditative boredom and that many modern activities (work, watching sports, many forms of exercise, social media) support it…
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Empire Killers
This article runs on 5 assumptions, uncertainty stated: AIs will gain consciousness and agency in the near term (40% 3y, 50% 5y, 80% 10y) Some AIs will…
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How to throw a dinner party in the age of AGI
And why
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November 2023

Writing About Utopia
Why Utopia is the Album of 2023
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April 2023

March 2023

OpenAI's secret is that it is building toward the singularity
If you ask any artificial intelligence researcher what OpenAI’s secret (in the parlance of Peter Thiel’s zero-to-one) is, they’re likely to say that…
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The New York Times is Not Too Stupid to Understand AI
We now have extraordinary evidence of GPT4 displaying human-level creativity and reasoning. Nonetheless, the conversation around AI is dominated by…
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Attention is not all you need
AI maximizes trust and that will shake the world
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July 2022

A Micro Rule of Thumb for Increasing Agency
and other, more generic thoughts on the subject
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June 2022

Relative Quality of Singleplayer/Multiplayer Suggests a Black Swan in Gaming
A marginal choice, a massive leap, a new world for us lonely gamers.
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the formula for correctly pricing bitcoin
it's made up and more than a little imprecise, but otherwise true and insightful
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May 2022

The Internet's Greatest Strategist is a Livestreamer
My attempt to learn from Ludwig's recent success.
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