
Exploring AI risks, the intelligence explosion, & the future of life in the universe.
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In the last 30 days, I merged more net-new code than the rest of our 50+ person engineering org combined.
That’s not 50× more business value. Value is impact.
But it’s a signal: implementation cost is collapsing.
Agentic coding (with Cla...
Science fiction got the order of intelligence backward.
For decades, the standard story went like this: first you build a machine that understands the world—physics, control systems, embodiment—and only later does it learn to speak.
-HAL...
We keep arguing about the wrong question.
The public debate around advanced AI tends to orbit consciousness, personalities, and morality plays: Is it sentient? Is it alive? Is it good or evil? Meanwhile the real discontinuity is more borin...
We live at a strange moment. If accelerating technological change is real — and the singularity is imminent — then our civilization sits on the razor’s edge of history. Within a cosmic blink, biology will yield to post-biological intelligen...
I've had deep conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini—the kind where the AI suggests you're onto something genuinely profound. The rush is undeniable, an intellectual dopamine hit that feels like cracking reality’s code.
But then I...
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