The Last Instrumental Century
On the possibility — and the possible forms — of a human future
Tag
technology
5 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.
Dropping the Purism: What Language Models Have Conquered, What Still Eludes Them, and Why General Intelligence Is a Continent No Species — Biological or Digital — Has Fully Explored
Linguistic competence in language models is a genuine achievement of intelligence, but only one region of a multidimensional topography that crows, chimpanzees and octopuses explore in ways LLMs cannot: action, grounding, interaction, development.
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.
AI Should Learn Like Children
A Hypothesis on Artificial Intelligence, Child Cognitive Development, and the Limits of the Statistical Mind
