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Is mathematics interesting?
Over the past few months, OpenAI and Anthropic have announced many AI-assisted solutions to important mathematical problems.
Some, top mathematicians had worked on for decades without success.
I suggest board game AI as an analog...
Meaning after an AI eucatastrophe
Pterosaur drawing (CC-BY-3.0) Dmitry Bogdanov
A eucatastrophe is “a sudden turn of events that averts an impending Doom.”
Superintelligent AI may well cause Doom. Or, precipitate a eucatastrophe that solves all our problems, so we li...
Exodus from the circumrational shantytown
Half the population lives now in the circumrational shantytown. That is an unsatisfactory abode.
AI may soon let most escape to better places. Or force them into worse.
The allegory
Shantytown on the outskirts of Mumbai. Pho...
Preventing AI risks: moderate, immoderate, micro
A swarm of immune system cells attacking a Mycobacterium ulcerans infection. Micrograph courtesy Haymanj.
The Hugging Face incident has re-polarized the terms of the AI safety debate.
Any public debate can allow only two opinions. Whi...
Heidegger, Dreyfus, and cognitivism
Martin Heidegger was the most significant philosopher of the past century. Not because he was right about something, …
… but because he opened new territory for understanding.
My writing, all of it, is travelers tales from wande...
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