A historical collection of our writing.
In 2009 we hosted a one day event we called “Hacking Education.” We brought together a diverse group that included game designers, principals from schools, and even homeschoolers. We were fortunate to have the late Sir Ken Robinson give opening remarks which set us off on a course of open […] Read more
Politics in the US has become ever more tribal on both the left and the right. Either you agree with 100 percent of group doctrine or you are considered an enemy. Tim Urban , the author of the wonderful Wait but Why blog has written a book digging into how we have gotten here. Titled […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Politics in the US has become ever more tribal on both the left and the right. Either you agree with 100 percent of group doctrine or you are considered an enemy. Tim Urban , the author of the wonderful Wait but Why blog has written a book digging into how we have gotten here. Titled […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Now we are getting to the biggest and weirdest risk of AI: a super intelligence emerging and wiping out humanity in pursuit of its own goals. To a lot of people this seems like a totally absurd idea, held only by a tiny fringe of people who appear weird and borderline culty. It seems so […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Now we are getting to the biggest and weirdest risk of AI: a super intelligence emerging and wiping out humanity in pursuit of its own goals. To a lot of people this seems like a totally absurd idea, held only by a tiny fringe of people who appear weird and borderline culty. It seems so […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
In my prior post I wrote about structural risk from AI . Today I want to start delving into existential risk. This broadly comes in two not entirely distinct subtypes: first, that we lose any grip on reality which could result in a Matrix style scenario or global war of all against all and second, […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
