The Last Instrumental Century
On the possibility — and the possible forms — of a human future
Tag
science
6 texts across all collections.
The Possibility of Superintelligence and the Void of Alignment
Nothing known prevents a superintelligence from existing; the technical path and the timeline are opaque; and the alignment problem is open while institutions are inadequate. An argument for cautious possibilism, neither doomerism nor complacency.
Intelligent Computers, Life Extension, and the Reconfiguration of Human Conditions
How artificial intelligence is turning the reversal of aging from a philosophical aspiration into an engineering program: epigenetic reprogramming, AlphaFold, deep aging clocks, six original theses, and the ethical and geopolitical stakes.
Science as a Civilizational Project
A tour of the frontiers of life, mind, matter, computation and the cosmos, and an argument that science, despite the systems that hobble it, remains humanity's noblest collective project.
Flesh and Entropy
An essay on consciousness in a universe of entropy: what depression sees, why we refuse Nozick's experience machine, and what art, free science and technology can and cannot do about suffering.
AI Should Learn Like Children
A Hypothesis on Artificial Intelligence, Child Cognitive Development, and the Limits of the Statistical Mind
