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What the Beetle Doesn't Know
You have never once seen the world as it is. Strangely, that might be the best news you'll hear all year.
Escape Velocity Is the Wrong Dream
Everyone in this field is selling immortality. I think they are pointing at the wrong miracle, and missing the stranger one happening in plain sight.
Before the Beginning
Most of us measure the future with a ruler. The people building it count in doublings.
Does AI Deserve a Self?
The debate over AI personhood has been running on two tracks: one philosophical, one legal, and neither quite speaking to the other. It's time to put them in the same room.
The Cost of Fear
Some people are afraid of what AI might become. Billions of people are already living through what its absence looks like.
The Magnificent Paradox
What the Pope's AI Encyclical Gets Right, Gets Wrong, and Can't Escape
The Organizational Singularity
How AI Is Rebuilding the Company From the Inside Out
You Are a Probability Cloud. Don't Collapse Too Soon.
Six things success is made of, and what machine learning can quietly teach you about all of them.
The Compressed Century
Fifty years of progress in five. Why AI will change everything, just not all at once. A reading of Dario Amodei's "Machines of Loving Grace."
You Are the Pilot Now
A beginner's guide to understanding AI agents, why they matter, and why you will never be replaced by one.
The AI Job Apocalypse That Never Was
Why the doomers are wrong, history is on our side, and the future is far brighter than the headlines suggest.
The Age When Mortals Became Miracle Makers
AI will split humanity into two very different tribes. Which one will you join?
Bound for the Stars: Why the Moon Is Just Our First Step
From the shores of an undiscovered ocean to the craters of another world, the story of humanity has always been the story of going further.
Your Brain Runs on Curiosity, And Science Finally Proves It
How the world’s most sophisticated neural network stays young, sharp, and gloriously alive
Are We Living in a Simulation? The Physics That Will Break Your Brain
A Nobel Prize, quantum weirdness, and one very unsettling idea about the nature of everything