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Humanism without (All) Humans
About a decade ago, I first encountered a phenomenon I call humanism without (all) humans. I was in a conference room in Zurich, wrapping up a day-long workshop I had delivered a few times before, on software eating the world. The audience...
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This is going to be one of those rare essays where I feel it is necessary to share some personal history and context for the story to make sense.
Over nearly 20 years of writing online, I have a had a sometimes entertaining, sometimes frau...
The Accelerationist Case for Frontier Pacing
The sole athletic achievement of my life came in 1993: Winning the IIT Bombay freshman 50m freestyle race with a time of 41s. That got me into the college swim team (it was a bad recruitment year), and launched my brief and entirely undisti...
Our Eukaryotic Moment
About two billion years ago, life underwent a change in architecture. Until then, the planet was ruled by relatively simple prokaryotic cells: bacteria and archaea, tiny packets of chemistry bounded by membranes, carrying their genetic mate...
The Curiously Playable Universe
In 2024, Google DeepMind’s AlphaProof solved three of the five non-geometry problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad. Unlike a chatbot producing a plausible-looking derivation in prose, AlphaProof worked in Lean, a formal mathema...
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