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The Stark Way

Jamie Freestone

Big ideas, no wishful thinking: AI, meaning, nukes, books, & brains.

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The perennial alignment problem

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Two million years ago, somewhere on the African savannah, bipedal hominins became adroit at throwing rocks. Now they could gang-up and kill from a distance. Coercive power was no longer based on individual ferocity. Coo...

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Hidden in plain sight

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When we close our eyes, the world disappears. It happens in the blink of an eye. It happens every time. From an early age we internalise this regularity. Consequently, we’re left in a confused state, a little like the child...

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There is no science of I, let alone AI

Midjourney.

Surprisingly, for what feels like the single most important topic on Earth, there is no science of intelligence: no science of biological intelligence, no science of human intelligence, no science of artificial intelligence, an...

2 months ago
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Behemoth meets Leviathan

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I’ve discovered a lot in the last 25 years. I’ve been allowed to range over every age of literature, every branch of science, every topic in philosophy, and, more recently, every sector of the technological vanguard....

3 months ago
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There is no such thing as perspective

Drawn by the lure of a $50,000 USD prize for an essay on consciousness(!), I entered the Berggruen Prize Essay Competition. The winner was Anil Seth, the amazing scientist and prolific author. I’m glad I entered the competition. It forced m...

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