Writing
Essays
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Crazy Idea or Crazy Person?
On subjective truth, delusion, creativity, and whether an AI would need a little of its own reality.
Nice or Kind?
On trust, masks, and what it would take to trust a mind smarter than us.
When Should You Turn Back?
On wisdom, and whether a machine can know when to stop.
What Comes After Agents?
I’ve been close to AI for nearly a decade. A diagram of its layers got me thinking about what comes next.
The Other Half of the Room
Men and women are being sold stories about each other. The first AI most of us lived with was built to sell them. What should the next one be built for?
Is Ten Percent a Lot?
AI researchers put the chance of AI ending humanity at around one in ten. Is that a lot?
Which love?
On superintelligence, what we should want it to feel, and what 2,500 years of contemplative practice might have to say about it.