A historical collection of our writing.
Grace CarneyThis blog is co-authored with ex/ante . Who will own our digital memory ? This question has become increasingly urgent as ChatGPT and Claude ask us to entrust more and more of our memories to their platforms. Frontier AI models have already ingested the world’s public knowledge, but their […] Read more
Matt MandelOne of the most exciting trends in energy is the rise of programmable power. Energy devices have become increasingly software-controllable. Developers can now build large virtual energy systems out of many small decentralized assets. We’ve been investing across the programmable power stack from […] Read more
Matt MandelThe Information Age was a consequence of two developments: the ability to work with information programmatically and the democratization of that capability. We are now entering a similar period in biology. We can program life itself with the ever cheaper tools of synthetic biology. We believe this […] Read more
In the last two Philosophy Mondays we first defined what values are and then posed the question of a basis for values . The key requirements for such a basis is that it has to be objective so that it can be universal, i.e. apply to all humans. This will be the subject of today’s […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Grace CarneyA quiet insurgency is rewiring our world. We’re hitting a critical moment when the inefficiency of constant AC/DC conversion is becoming too convoluted to ignore, especially as data centers strain capacity, renewable projects multiply, and extreme weather exposes grid vulnerabilities. We’ve been […] Read more
