Posts tagged #artificial-intelligence

8 posts

• Book Smart January 31, 2026

  LLMs are trained on the compression of human experience, not experience itself. The territory they'd need to become intelligent is fundamentally alien to ours.

• Margin Play January 29, 2026

  The same optimization that turned feeds into dopamine casinos is now operating on AI assistants.

• The Last Levee January 29, 2026

  'Massively polygenic' was our security blanket against designer humans. AlphaGenome just pulled it off. The only levee left is ethics. Don't laugh.

• Car Keys January 15, 2026

  RLMs and MoR are real progress. They're also still not reasoning. A critique of the cutting edge.

• Petty Gods January 15, 2026

  The accelerationists expect the Rapture. The doomers expect Ragnarok. Both are fairy tales. What actually arrives is worse: narrow superintelligences that solve everything except the thing that matters.

• Marvin January 11, 2026

  Your ASI needs a hug.

• Geometry Saves Mawmaw January 10, 2026

  I proposed that goal-space geometry could replace executive function in AI architectures. Then I discovered the math already exists.

• AI Can’t Help Mawmaw, But Worms Can January 7, 2026

  A robot caring for your grandma needs to fluidly inhabit radically different forms of cognition: creativity, logic, and crisis. Nothing in current AI architectures explains how. Worms might.