Futurism

When Machines Compete

A darwinian change to capitalism

AI

OpenAI’s Charter

You may be surprised at their stance on the AGI arms race

AI

DeepSeek Foreshadows Recursive Self-Improvement

No fanfare, no papers—just abrupt capability shifts

AI

Charles Darwin: The Godfather of Reinforcement Learning

Evolution is a population-level reinforcement learner

The Economy

The Product Lifecycle of Human Labor

Will humans become an idle resource?

Futurism

2025 AI Predictions

Overall, I think 2025 will be the year the zeitgeist shifts

The Economy

Consumption Must Flow

The fallout from AI’s collision with the labor force

Sci & Tech

What is a Computer?

Meditations on the computer on the eve of superintelligence

AI

A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence

A meditation on the culmination of the computer revolution

AI

The Origin of the Attention Mechanism in LLMs

Dzmitry Bahdanau explains how he arrived at the idea

The Economy

The Big Opportunity in AI: Legacy Industry

The entire economy is going to be remade

Culture

The Singularity and its Discontents

Will spaceships and Dyson spheres make us happy?

Politics

The Real Risk of AGI: Geopolitical Disequilibria

Ultimately, the risks of AGI are not technical but human

The Economy

Hollywood In a Laptop

What happens if anyone can make a blockbuster?

Culture

Founders of a New World

We’re not merely inventing a new technology, we’re birthing a new civilization

The Economy

The Twilight of Labor

Technology and the human ego