Cliff Sosin on the limits of intelligence: "Superintelligence arrived. You probably didn't notice, because it turned out to be kind of incr...

Exclusive: Futurist Ray Kurzweil, 78, is building an AI replica of himself that can speak, reason and learn from conversations. He hopes t...

The difference between having a tool and being a tool is subtle these days and it’s easy to accidentally build yourself into being a tool. D...

The limits of intelligence discussion unlocked a weird idea which is something like: what if humans evolved to have the optimal level of int...

Applications are now open for two new Anthropic Fellowships. STEM Fellows (science and engineering) and Conceptual Reasoning Fellows (philo...

“On a technical level, the paper is unbelievable, maybe beyond what a human could have come up with but not beyond human understanding” http...

String theory is what happens when an intelligent system is starved of sensory input and starts hallucinating. Intelligence needs grounding....

This is what the AI future will really be like. Spread the word. https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/cognitive-mercantilism

One must imagine Claude happy

I’m no longer sure what “intellectual property” means when intellect becomes free.

New paper from Google DeepMind on training models to argue well about moral dilemmas. The trained model became more decisive and stopped ch...

the market is rational, in that over the long run it rewards people when they are right and punishes people when they are wrong the media i...

muse spark open. why 2026 won't be like 1984 

60 episodes of @DialecticPod (and counting)

Happy JevDay! But before announcements we have to talk philosophy… The needs of early adopters / tinkerers / dreamers are quite different ...

Wrote a lil manifesto with @kevinroose about what we're trying to do at Machine Gods. We call it AI realism https://www.platformer.news/mach...

Arguing that "consciousness arises from a computational substrate, and since AI models are computation, they are likely conscious," is as me...

AI IS AN ACCELERATOR. but it accelerates you to whichever direction you want: > exploring wild ideas for the curious mind > or making shor...

The agenda of Christian alignment is a useful corrective since it challenges the tendency to cultivate the agent as if it were an ensouled b...

I’m genuinely in two minds about the abliterated model debate. It boils down to a liberty v paternalism debate that plagues many political i...