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Opposition to the precautionary principle has become a kind of fad. But if we really understand risks such as “The Big One”, we’ll see that opposition is a major mistake.

Will the scaling laws keep on scaling as AI models get bigger and bigger? AI companies are bullish, but history suggests it is not always so simple.

The elephant at Starbase is the strong likelyhood that we, flesh-and-blood humans like you and me, won't be the ones to establish an interstellar civilization. AI will.

AI doesn’t necessarily need to process information exactly the way people think, but AI can be trained using principles drawn from human perception and cognition.

I’ve been experimenting with vibe coding, math and physics with AI assistance from Grok, to test the performance of today's AI on things that I know well enough.

Consciousness, like intelligence, is multi-faceted. This makes the future of AI more unpredictable and potentially even more hazardous.