Unpredictable Patterns
Nicklas Berild LundbladLearning about things, in an unstructured way. Unpredictable patterns is an exploration of a wide variety of different subjects. What they all have in common is that they have some application on understanding the world in new ways, providing new lenses.
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Unpredictable Patterns #156: On the organization, growth and governance of socratic networks
Dear readers,
Here some musings on the future of science that I have been thinking about for a bit. There is much more here, so more to come. PDF of journal notes at the bottom of the post for your verification (should you be able to read...
Notes on machines, consciousness and understanding
On AI and understanding
Four sets of handwritten notes (included as PDFs below as guarantee of human written content), 12–15 September 2026, occasioned by Ariel Goldstein and Gabriel Stanovsky, “Do Zombies Understand? A Choose-Your-Own-A...
Unpredictable Patterns #155: Tulpas, dreams and AI
Dear reader,
Unpredictable Patterns has been quiet for a bit, but my intention is that this will change as I return to writing, and learning, more. I attach a PDF of the handwritten essay to make sure you know this is my writing — seems l...
Unpredictable Patterns #154: The token race
Dear reader,
Travel week, and I try to find some time to write in between trains and flights. This is written at the excellent TUM Think tank in a break, and addresses something I think will be an interesting area to think more about in t...
Talk at Nokia Bell Labs
Strategic Foresight in AI
Thank you so much, and thanks for the opportunity to talk to you about this. I’m going to talk about strategic foresight in AI today.
By way of introduction: I spent the last several years at Google in various...
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