A historical collection of our writing.
I learned how to code on a Texas Instruments TI-59 programmable calculator and then moved on to an Apple II. The calculator had a kind of assembly language and on the Apple I had access to Basic but still wrote a fair bit of assembly code. After a one year stay 1983-84 as a High […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The future is electric. Electric vehicles (the fastest “production” car in the world is now electric ). Electric stoves . Electric heat pumps . Electric robots . And of course all the compute powering the AI revolution. At USV we have long held the belief that all of this adds up to a massively […] 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)
John von Neumann famously postulated the idea of a Universal Constructor, a machine that could build anything, itself included. While that may forever remain elusive, our cells contain marvelous constructors called Ribosomes, which assemble all the proteins for us based on reading programming […] Read more
What a time to be building! Writing computer code has never been easier. We now have AI models that have memorized every conceivable API and can assist us or even write code for us outright. Especially the more recent so-called “reasoning models” have taken another big step in this direction. At […] Read more
I have already written a prior post arguing against Leopold Aschenbrenner ‘s logic for a Manhattan project to achieve artificial super intelligence (ASI). In that post I made the argument that having more than one system mitigates risks because we can use cooperative systems to overcome the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
