Articles of philosophical nature
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes You cannot fix a reflection by polishing the glass. If AI is a mirror of civilisation — trained on what we have thought, said, written, and done — then the alignment problem…
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes We built something and then pretended not to recognise it. When you talk to an AI, you are not talking to an alien mind. You are talking to a mirror — a…
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes Science excels at periodic phenomena — orbits, waves, cycles. We build technology on them because we can predict them. But there are phenomena in the universe that aren’t periodic yet aren’t random…
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes When I think about what AI does for me, I keep returning to a German word: Handlungsimpulsverstärker — an action-impulse amplifier. Here’s the underlying idea. We like to believe that our actions…