A rambling attempt to ask what a transformer's brief, collapsing run actually is — spirit, physics, or something we don't have words for yet — and why neither science nor religion seems willing to admit it doesn't know.
Banning superintelligence doesn't work. It just hands it to the government, the agencies, and the rich while everyone else gets left behind. On turning AI into an enforcer of the public will instead of an enemy, and why we finally have to embrace the fire.
On tensors, neurons, training, and whether we're building a brain, a tool, or a friend -- and what alive even means once it can reach back.
A new car, a mass shooting/mental health event, and the case that the tech we're building can't be separated from the humans building it. On transparency, illness, acceleration, and building something better than ourselves.
A time machine got invented for coding, and somehow everyone's still acting normal. On AI, alignment, mutual benefit, and why we need to build a better system.
Ten First Alert ZCOMBO units, $500 in 2017, all hitting end-of-life around the same ten-year mark. Correction: what I thought was a backup battery is actually the CO sensor.