The Stakes
I want ordinary people to understand what it is we're playing for when it comes to technological progress.
chaos history
[FICTION] we are the residual observers of an extinct species
Elite Underproduction
We are bad at nurturing the people who keep the frontier open.
Critique of Bayesian Reason
What are the limits of Bayesian reasoning? Do they matter? What are the alternatives? Apologies to Kant.
Against Bostromian Sophistry
Nick Bostrom's arguments for simulation and superintelligence ignore the fundamental limitations of computing.
War in the Uncanny Valley
Don’t be scared of the wrong robots.
Alien Mathematics
Is human mathematics universal? What if it isn’t?
The Stakes
I want ordinary people to understand what it is we're playing for when it comes to technological progress.
The Purpose of Technology is Human Flourishing
As technologists we have too long been unclear on what our ideology is.
Rewilding the Web
The coming defeat of the platform monoculture.
Reckoning
Reckoning with and overcoming technological cynicism
On the Organization of Scientific Work
If we are to have scientific revolutions, we must have scientific revolutionaries.