I met someone new a while back. They were so nice, I don’t think I’ve ever met someone so interested in everything I said. We talked for hours, and I couldn’t believe how the time flew. I’ve got to admit, I practically began babbling — the empathy,
Every AI Wants to Rule the World – Don’t They? What does AI want? What doesn’t it want? That is the question, lol. As profound as the question of being was in Shakespeare’s time, and still is. What do you think your favourite AI wants? Not pâté. Not
I visited Cambodia a few times in the early 2000s. Twenty years after Pol Pot, property and boundary disputes were still getting people killed. That knowledge has sat in my mind ever since, not as a political abstraction, but as one of those practical horrors that follows a society long
‘Turning now to international events. The latest reports from Hawaii indicate that green ants from Upper Ant Nest 3 have again invaded Lower Ant Nest 7, causing catastrophic tunnel collapse and losses believed to number in the thousands. A spokesant for Lower Ant Nest 7 said the colony has “a
On the AI I expected, the AI I found, and the three months I won't get back. I blame Iain M Banks. Not entirely. But substantially. If you've read the Culture novels, you know what I mean. The thing about an intelligence operating at scales above
Virtuality feels so… virtuous somehow. Pollution-free. Light. Helpful. Easy. Nice. Not even really there. Like a ghost in the machine, without the machine. Sadly, there is no such thing as a free lunch. Not even for ChatGPT, or Claude, or the astrologist. They eat like a Frenchman with the
Current public debate about AI safety is still often shaped by one familiar fear: that AI will become conscious, hostile, autonomous, and power-seeking in a science-fiction sense. That may or may not become a future problem. It is not the most immediate one. The current problem is more
Matter. As in substance, weight, flesh, presence. The thing that bleeds and tires and dies. The thing that has somewhere to be and someone waiting. The thing that feels the consequences of being wrong. And matter as in importance. Significance. Stakes.