A.I.

  • AI and the Current Zeitgeist

    Apologies if I'm throwing more AI stuff at you than you care to read, but things in the world of AI are happening fast, and the argument I've been making here for the last couple of years is that what's happening there is more important to understand and to resist than whatever is happening in

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  • Mountainhead: Some Quick Thoughts after Watching It

    I'm glad it’s a movie rather than a full, multi-season series. I gave up on Succession half way through the first season, and I would have given up on this, too, if I had to watch much more of it. That doesn't mean it fails–the writing is clever, and the humor burns–but that there's just

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  • Singularity in 2027?

    Two pieces have appeared in the NY Times in the past couple of days that relate to the argument I was making in the Cathedral Lectures. The first is a Ross Douthat interview yesterday with Daniel Kokotajlo entitled "An Interview with the Herald of the Apocalypse", and the second today by Cade Metz entitled "Why

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  • In the meanwhile…

    Yesterday I wrote about what I believe has to happen in the long run if the machines aren't going to win. By the machines winning I mean that we're at a balance point where technological development can go one way or the other: either the machines will serve human needs or humans will come to

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