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Taking sides in vicious tribal conflicts is dumb as fuck and is going to boomerang back on you.

Oppenheimer (2023) ★★★ Although Oppenheimer is a solid and historically accurate film, it is overly long - making its missed opportunities all the more glaring - and the key dramatic tension rests on speculation that was considered entirely fictional long before 1945.

This thing watched Barbie earlier today, and it would posit that there are three main frames through which one can view and analyze Barbie. First, there is the staid theme of growing up aimed at children, from Barbie discovering death (and its accompaniments, such as ageing and cellulite) and coping with it by finally accepting […]

I think that the terminology in the AI safety debates could do with some fantastical inspirations. Golems are models fine-tuned on a corpus of works – personal notes, journals, blog posts, articles, drafts, podcasts, libraries, completed personality quizzes, videos, etc. – of certain people or groups. They replicate your personality, knowledge, and interests, allowing them […]

I am not thrilled to be writing this post. Though I think many e/acc arguments to really bad, I remain an AI optimist for the most part, for reasons mostly Hansonian as well as my own writings with similar arguments from 2016-17 (that said, it’s not encouraging that the bulk of elite human capital seems […]

I have been an advocate of UBI for a long time. Until relatively recently, I didn’t consider it imminent, short of some cardinal change in automation levels. But everything changed post-GPT 4 and I now consider it a near inevitability. I hope this should now as obvious to anyone as it is to me, but […]

Twitter Space to Clarify Why I’m Opting for Effective Acceleration (with Caveats)  Even as GPT-3/4 has semi-mainstreamed it, the AI timelines discourse has become sharply riven between AI safetyists and “effective accelerationists” in the past several months. In this Twitter space from Feb 27, 2023, two representatives of each side – Roko Mijic and myself, […]

I am a transhumanist interested in geopolitics, IQ augmentation, crypto, life extension. I mainly write at Substack and on Twitter.

• I am a transhumanist interested in geopolitics, IQ augmentation, crypto, life extension. I mainly write at Substack and on Twitter.
• Inventor of Idiot’s Limbo, a scenario in which dysgenics leads to neo-Malthusian industrialism…
• .. and of the Katechon Hypothesis about the inplications of the universe having a limited computing capacity.
• This website hosts my old blog archives, as well as book reviews (also films, games), travel reviews, and sundry AK trivia.