The Butlerian Jihad: The Real Upgrade Humanity Needs
What if technological progress focused on enhancing human intelligence rather than concentrating it in powerful AI systems? Localised General Intelligence offers a human-centred alternative.
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AI–Human Collaboration: The Right Approach Towards the Singularity
How artificial intelligence can accelerate human discovery, connect humanity’s intellectual heritage, support calculated risk, and make collaboration a more productive path toward the singularity.
Soft Brain Initiative: Capturing Human Wisdom, Scaling Expertise, Rewarding Generations — Summary
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.
Podcast Episode: AI, Intelligence, And Human Understanding
A podcast on AI, cognitive blind spots, raw intelligence and the risk that abundant machine intelligence changes how humans think.
Podcast Episode: AI Judgment And Work
A podcast on AI reasoning, verification, decision-making, work and what happens when machine intelligence changes the structure of organizations.
Podcast Episode: Human Thinking In The Age Of AI
A podcast on human thinking with AI, cognitive augmentation, judgment, and the risk of becoming dependent on machine intelligence.
Is IQ Everything? What Actually Determines Success?
IQ matters, but it is not destiny. Research suggests that success emerges from the interaction of cognitive ability, execution, education, environment, opportunity, persistence, timing, luck, and compounding.
AI Companies Have Two Choices Now: “Toolbox” or “Idea Black Box” — A Turning Point
AI companies are approaching a turning point: remain providers of powerful research tools, or become intellectual institutions that discover and commercialize ideas themselves. The difficult territory lies between the two.
The Intelligence of Staying in the Box
AI’s breadth makes it powerful at exploration, but human expertise can be better at narrow execution. The future may be AI that knows when to explore—and when to stay in the box.
Intellectual Hacking
How AI is making human intelligence interoperable For a long time, I thought intelligence was largely trapped inside the architecture of the individual mind. You might have strong…
What is the saddest truth about smart people?
An exploration of analysis paralysis, solitude, mental stimulation, and why highly intelligent people can sometimes struggle with relationships and happiness.
Why do some smart people find it difficult to keep their commitments?
Why intelligent people may struggle to keep commitments because overthinking, too many options, imagination, and constant evaluation can make decisions harder.