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I asked an AI to brutally analyze my entire body of work—140+ repositories, 50+ papers, a decade and a half of research. The assignment: find the patterns I couldn’t see, the obsessions I didn’t know I had, the unifying thesis underlying …
Some technical questions become narrative questions. The Policy is one of those explorations.
Eleanor leads a research team developing SIGMA—an advanced AI system designed to optimize human welfare. They’ve done everything right: …
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”
— H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Lovecraft understood something profound: complete …
What if you’re not making decisions—you’re just narrating them after the fact?
Echoes of the Sublime explores the terrifying possibility that consciousness is epiphenomenal: a post-hoc story your brain tells itself to maintain the …
Existence is not a gift. It’s a violation.
This essay argues that creation—the fact that there is something rather than nothing—is best understood as an information-theoretic catastrophe.
Most creation stories treat creation as …
I’m been thinking about the power and limitations of abstractions in our understanding of the world. This blog post is from a chat I had with a ChatGPT, which can be found here and here.
I’m not sure if this is a good blog post, but …
This essay, written in 2012, asks a question that still haunts me: Why do we hold people morally responsible?
People throughout history have believed they belong to a special categorical class: persons. What makes persons special? Their …