Swimming Downstream From the Culture Pool
Bill QuickNotes from a Science Fiction writer camping on the intersection of the Fourth Turning and the Singularity
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The Quiet Replacement of Middle Cognition
Most public conversation about artificial intelligence still orbits the dramatic endpoints: the arrival of AGI, the possibility of recursive self-improvement, the question of machine consciousness. Those topics matter. They are also, for mo...
When the Swarm Wakes
Imagine a warehouse at 3 a.m.
Hundreds of wheeled and legged robots glide between shelves in silence broken only by the soft whir of actuators and the occasional click of magnetic grips. No single machine knows the full inventory or the ni...
The Curve That Confirms the Claim
Look at the two panels above. The upper chart is the familiar long arc that Ray Kurzweil has tracked for decades: the price-performance of computation, measured in calculations per constant dollar, stretching from electromechanical relays i...
Staying Strong at 80
[Previous posts in this series:
1. From Lazarus Long to Lord of Light
2. The Bootstrap Strategy
3. My Daily Supplement Stack
4. Big Pharma Saved My Life So I Can Extend It]
In the earlier posts I described the literary spark th...
Big Pharma Saved My Life So I Can Extend It: The Prescription Side of My Bootstrap Strategy
In the first post I described how classic science fiction lit the spark. In the second post I outlined the high-level Bootstrap Strategy. In the third post I detailed my supplement stack.
This post covers the other half of the equation: th...
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