Beyond Now
Exploring who we are — and who we are becoming.
10 Oct · 7 min read
I Am Not a Sheep: Greed, AI Ethics and Human Responsibility
What does it mean to believe that your work could contribute to the end of humanity, and to continue pursuing it? What responsibility follows from recognising a danger of that magnitude? And who has given you the authority to decide how much risk the rest of us should bear?
Humanity & AI
10 Oct · 4 min read
The Deliberate Human
For the better part of a century, the brightest minds amongst us have toiled at reverse engineering our intelligence. Notwithstanding we couldn’t quite figure out consciousness and, we don’t fully understand how the brain produces thoughts, we’ve proceeded on a path toward artificial general intelligence.
Human Agency
23 Aug · 5 min read
We Have Been Schooled Out of Thinking
I think many of us have become extraordinarily good at doing precisely what our educational and professional systems have rewarded us for doing, finding the answer - not thinking.
Critical Thinking
13 Jun · 3 min read
Algorithmacy, Luck and the Invisible Structures Beneath Reality
We move through these systems every day, sensing patterns we cannot fully see. Perhaps this is why people so often describe successful individuals as having “good instincts” or “a feel for things.”
Algorithmacy
13 Mar · 1 min read
Living United
What is science’s role in warfare? Neil deGrasse Tyson shares his thoughts on war and begs the question: why can’t we all just get along? Do we need an outside threat to humanity before we learn to live united? Why do we so often turn against one another? I find myself wondering about our desire for dominance and our willingness to subjugate others. Where does that come from? As I listen to my “personal astrophysicist,” my thoughts turn to AI: have we trained these same impulses into the...
Humanity & AI
21 Feb · 4 min read
Beyond Now
The Garden and the Ghost in the Machine
Humanity & AI