Opinions

A 200-person company can run useful AI inference locally. The numbers now work.

If AI can make basic needs abundant and help heal Earth, the idea of competing (and often fighting) nations loses purpose. The next human project may begin beyond the planet.

Machines can make competence look abundant. They cannot make a person keep their word. In the post-AI era, integrity becomes the scarce infrastructure.

A revisit of my 2011 machine-awareness essay through Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness, unhobbling, and the uncomfortable question of who owns the stack.

A night at Roger Waters' 2017 concert in Washington DC: the wall, the spectacle, and the Pink Floyd sound doing its old work.

Books are not files, and treating them that way has made digital publishing duller than it needed to be.

A 2011 essay on AI, genetic algorithms, neural networks, and machine awareness, revisited after the future arrived more quietly than expected.