artificial intelligence
The bitter lesson was most true in 2019. It is slightly less true today. And it will be less true still in the future. Not because scaling stopped working. But because the assumptions underneath it are quietly falling apart
ethics
The ring has always been built. It has always been destroyed. What saved us was time. The question is whether we still have any, and whether we would know if we didn't.
artificial intelligence
AI agents are being deployed to make real-time decisions, but they have no reliable sense of when they are and what they utter. That's not a minor bug. It's a fundamental problem for anything we ask them to do autonomously.
artificial intelligence
True understanding between people is rarer than we admit. Most connections are approximations. This is about what it actually takes to be seen, and why that's harder than it sounds, for humans and machines alike.
philosophy
So… Are We Really Living in a Simulation?
philosophy
Columbia panicked. Brown calculated. And the rest were left negotiating from a position that Brown had already weakened. This is a textbook prisoner's dilemma. Nobody made the call.