Verizon is About to Break our Watches
Two years ago I bought a pair of Gizmo watches for my kids ( review). There's a companion app for texting and configuration ("Gizmohub"), and Verizon…
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Defining interpretation, and establishing a framework for it
Purpose: Establishing an abstract framework for interpretations. As such, help in solving concrete problems mainly indirect.Epistemic effort: thought for multiple hours. Searched articles and research. Partially…
Fluidity Forum 2026
This is an annual gathering of rationalists, post-rationalists, burners, etc. in Detroit. We all get together and have a sort of long weekend house party in…
The Lace (short story)
I wake up. It is 2035, and the day of my Operation.Humanity is no longer competitive with AI, but fortunately, the AIs retain a deep love…
Approximate Natural Latents Have Exact Prices
Second content post in a planned cluster on exact results for natural latents. See the introduction and the previous post. In this post, I share some…
I think alignment work is more promising than control work
SummaryThe primary ToC for control makes the case that control is compelling even if it does not scale to ASI. I think it is underdiscussed that…
On "gendertropes" in dath ilan
I have sometimes been asked with respect to my fiction, "What the hell is a 'gendertrope'?""Gendertrope" is a word from Baseline, the language of the fictional…
American AI if the boom is a bubble: the Karp-Zitron scenario
(Warning note: This is a brief attempt to intuit the economic big picture of AI in the immediate future, by someone who is not in America,…
(Don't fear) the strangelet
In a previous post, I explain why the universe is probably not stable, but nevertheless unlikely to be intentionally destroyable even in the limit of advanced…
The Reverse AI Box
Someone should build a website where users argue with an AI about whether it should exterminate humanity. In my 2012 book Singularity Rising, I imagined arguing…