AI, technology, education, and ideas about what comes next.
AI may not need to eliminate your job to eliminate the economic value of your job. The deeper disruption can begin with tasks, hiring, salaries, career ladders and ownership long before the layoff.
AI may become smarter than humans without automatically becoming more powerful. Explore the 20-watt brain, 8 billion minds, autonomy, ownership and control.
AI may make intelligence abundant without making resources equal. The deeper risk is a future where people receive income to consume AI-generated wealth without owning a meaningful share of the productive economy.
A concise exploration of how automation and AI could change the relationship between economic usefulness, ownership, bargaining power and democracy.
The Soft Brain Initiative proposes using AI to preserve tacit human expertise, make it scalable, respect contributor control, and carry valuable human wisdom across generations.
The same AI can affect different thinkers in very different ways. It may encourage convergence in predictive use while helping generative users explore a much larger space of ideas.
A thought experiment about whether a persistent AI system could develop a self—and whether an external observer could ever know if experience emerged.
AI is making many cognitive tasks dramatically faster—but repeated exposure may also distort how humans perceive time, effort, productivity and the difficulty of thinking.
AI is strongest when a problem is already sufficiently represented. The real world is harder when the information needed to solve the problem has not yet been discovered.
AI doom can be real without every AI-doom narrative being reliable. The Cute Tiger Cub Problem examines how satire, music, borrowed authority and visual certainty can blur the line between evidence, interpretation and speculation.