One way I think about Dennett style approaches to explaining consciousness is in terms of distributed systems. For example, the mind has to maintain a consistent and robust world model even when mult...

Human, animal, and artificial sentience

Principal-agent problems

The systematic bias toward pathologizing individual children rather than examining environmental factors represents one of the most pervasive problems in mental health and educational assessment.

There are signs that the transhumanism of Elon Musk is merging with the traditionalism of Steve Bannon.

Thiel is not the problem. He’s a symptom. One face on the hydra. Treating him as the apex predator distracts from the larger reality: We are not dealing with a single actor, but with a networked syste...

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SingularityNET, the Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Alliance, joined hands with Privado ID to launch the first decentralized AI Agent Trust Registry, enabling users to verify AI Agents' safety and ...

LOL, those graphs. This is what we call vibe-charting. It is how you report your vibe-coding progress to your manager.

Part 2: China, energy, and extraction versus creation

Goodbye, reliable economic data

LLMs as Cultural Systems of Replication and Selection

Evolving Cooperation for Autonomous Systems

Evolving Cooperation for Autonomous Systems

You’ve agreed to hundreds of privacy policies you never read. I built something to fix that. I just launched Clarity—a free tool that lets you instantly analyze any Terms of Service or Privacy Polic...

What, exactly, did Trump get from Europe?

The scammers my dad encountered were not sophisticated, my father suspended his own disbelief wilfully. But many scammers are sophisticated and they’re getting harder to detect

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold

He is incompetent in every way that matters. And that may be irrelevant.

Weaponized interdependence and tech bro ideology, oh my

That's a problem for social science. And more importantly for us

What the heck were the Trumpists thinking?

Confronting the production-progress paradox

Reality still has a well-known liberal bias

LLMs as Cultural Systems of Replication and Selection

A collection of the best technical, social, and economic arguments Humans have a good track record of innovation. The mechanization of agriculture, steam engines, electricity, modern medicine, compu...

And why deskilling teachers is now policy

This is frigging hilarious and fucking terrifying in the same breath…

Ok, this guy is starting to become one of my favorites….

Time to take a stand, again, against racism

Identifying and correcting Maradona errors

Between new technology and low fertility, our existence as a species is not going to be the same.

New findings from the University of Bonn challenge the assumptions of the standard cosmological model. The faint "afterglow" that fills the universe has long been one of the most important clues suppo...

Well played, horses

More adventures in policymaking

The relative vulnerabilities of tyrants and crowds

YouTube video by John Michael Godier

It usually only happens to poor countries, and it never ends well.

ALT: a man is holding his finger to his forehead while thinking .

FINANCIAL CRISES & WAR

No, Grok didn’t just solve a legendary math problem. But it gets worse.

Results of our big new Comparative Judgement AI trial