The Era of Universal Employment: A New UBI
AI may create a new economic channel in which people contribute ideas, expertise, methods and cognitive systems to the development of machine intelligence—and potentially share in the value created.
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Question the Question: The Absent-Minded Professor Problem in AI
AI can reason brilliantly inside the wrong frame. From the counterfeit-cap puzzle to the bat-and-ball problem, the deeper challenge is not merely solving a question but recognizing whether the question itself deserves to be solved.
AI & Human Intelligence: A New Three-Part Journey Begins
AI & Human Intelligence begins with Book I: The Augmented Mind—a three-part exploration of artificial intelligence, human intelligence, and how AI may change the way we think.
The IT Job-Loss Story Is Overblown
AI may eliminate millions of IT jobs, but job loss is not the same as economic collapse. The real questions are productivity, output and income distribution.
From the Four-Year Degree to the Ability Umbrella
AI could shift education from a fixed four-year journey to a continuous, adaptive capability system in which people learn, demonstrate, work and keep learning.
The Two Wolves of AI: The Rise of K-Shaped Human Cognition
The same technology can amplify independent thinking—or accelerate cognitive outsourcing. AI may not produce one uniform cognitive future. It may widen the distance between people who use intelligence tools to think further and those who use them to think less.
The Limits of AI: When Knowing the Answer Is Not Understanding
AI can produce answers that look like understanding. But the deeper test is whether it can transfer concepts, detect contradictions, recognize boundaries, manage uncertainty, and connect different forms of intelligence.
When Knowledge Becomes Abundant, What Becomes Valuable Next?
As AI makes knowledge and cognitive production abundant, the bottleneck may move upward—from knowledge to awareness, judgment and agency.
The Root of Life
The seed is not the beginning of life. A thought experiment about energy flow, information, propagation, artificial life and the possibility that life begins when a self-maintaining loop closes.
AI as an Intelligence Multiplier
AI may be more than an artificial mind. It may be a new architecture of intelligence: structural, cross-domain, persistent, reusable—and capable of amplifying human thought.
The Strange Case of Navier–Stokes
If AI can solve mathematical problems that have resisted humanity for decades, should we slow the machine—or rethink what mathematical discovery is for?
Intelligence Development with AI
AI may become more than a productivity tool. It could become a personal cognitive training partner—changing how human intelligence develops.
The Black Box Paradox: Why the Future Is Both Scary and Exciting
As AI becomes capable of discovering systems humans may not fully understand, the future presents a paradox: technological dependence on intelligence beyond us—and the possibility of augmenting ourselves to understand it.
The Real Disruption of AI: The Hidden Power Transfer
AI is not merely automating work. It is reducing the organizational scale required to create, build, publish, and compete.
Intelligence Is the Beginning, Not the Destination
AI can advance at software speed while infrastructure, institutions and economies move at different speeds. The real challenge is not slowing intelligence, but building systems capable of absorbing it.
Why P vs NP Is Equally Hard for AI and Computers
Why P vs NP may resist increasingly powerful AI and computation: the deeper challenge may be discovering structural principles that eliminate exponential search rather than merely searching faster.
Calculator Paradox: Why AI Alignment May Be Misaligned
AI may become so capable that humans voluntarily surrender practical control—not because AI takes the wheel, but because its reasoning becomes too persuasive to resist.
The Math Heist: AI Must Be Kingmaker, Not King
AI is entering mathematics at unprecedented speed. The real question is not whether machines can solve problems, but who gets the credit—and whether AI enriches mathematics or turns it into a leaderboard.
Transhumanism: The Qualia Trap
What must remain unchanged for consciousness to survive radical technological transformation?
Navier–Stokes Controversy: You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
The Navier–Stokes controversy reveals a deeper problem with AI: we may not recognize the value of the ideas, research directions, and cognitive material we expose to increasingly powerful systems.
Cognitive Explosion: When AI Becomes a Stranger to Our Ideas
AI can expand our search for ideas, push beyond idea exhaustion, and provide the outside perspective we lose when familiarity creates blind spots.
Universal Basic Equity: Who Owns the AI Future?
If humanity’s accumulated knowledge helps create extraordinary AI wealth, should humanity receive more than a basic income?
AI, Human Knowledge, and the Missing Social Contract
If AI companies can commercially learn from humanity’s knowledge, should humanity receive a return?
P vs NP: The Government Clerk, the Wine Tester, and the People Who Couldn’t Find the Answer
A humorous explanation of P vs NP through government clerks and wine testers: verifying a proposed solution can be easy, but finding the solution efficiently is the real mystery.