Essays & Field Notes

Thoughts on research, technology, and the spaces between.

AI's Most Important Number Has Never Been Measured

I thought the machines were going to take most of the work. I set out to find out how much, and ended up taking my own argument apart. The tools that would settle it have been s...

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Against the Quiet Empire

There is a certain kind of political conversation that never quite touches the ground.

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The Kingdom of Lesser Thrones

At some point in the coming decades, we will share the world with minds that are not human.

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