Birthday Gifts of Positivity
On my birthday, I asked friends and acquaintances to share their good news instead of just wishing me a happy…
Writing & Ideas
Two decades of thinking, in order.
Writing since 2003, newest first. Filter by topic below.
Radical Human Longevity
If you ask me my age, it is very likely that I will respond with a round number of the…
Is This Idea Novel? An AI Based Scoring System
I’ve developed a simple approach to numerically score the novelty of ideas, using LLMs. For several years I have been…
Shortening Doubling Rates Are The Engine of AGI Progress
The most important concept to understand AGI trends, is to realize that the doubling rate of AI compute is shortening.…
Humanoid Robots and the Future of Labor
In the latest episode of Searching for the Question Live, I had the pleasure of hosting Adam Dorr from RethinkX,…
Our First Interstellar Mission: Breakthrough Starshot
I had the opportunity to speak with Pete Worden, the director of the Breakthrough Initiatives, aiming to leverage cutting edge…
The Challenges Of Unions Between AI And Humanoid Robots
In this live stream, I chat with Enrico Coppotelli of Italian union CISL Lazio, exploring the contemporary challenges that trade…
Innovation And Tradition: A Role For Peer-to-Peer Communities
In a conversation with Diana, she noted that it takes time for innovations to become traditions, through a couple of…
21st Century Workers’ Rights
I had a conversation with James Hughes, a sociologist and executive director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies…