AI
- Newspapers, copyright, artists, and GenAI (2024/03/19)
- Unthinkable thoughts (2024/04/30)
- People are wrong on the internet, AI edition (2024/08/10)
- Would this be a solution to the problem of literal-Genie omniscient AIs? (2017/08/09)
- Speed of machine intelligence (2018/03/16)
- Thought crime in 2084 (2018/09/22)
- Unfortunate personhood tests for A.I. (2018/06/21)
cryptocurrency
cryptography
Fiction
- AGI to match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags (2022/12/13)
- Head cannon: Wallace & Grommit (2023/02/20)
- Sapiens Plurum contest entry (2019/07/30)
- The Totally Credible Heroes (2019/08/12)
- SciFi: The unexpected problems with gravity (2021/07/17)
- If you wanted to steal an election… (2020/08/15)
- Trek head-cannon (2020/06/27)
- Mote of smartdust (2018/02/16)
- Headcannon (2018/06/27)
Futurology
- An end to copyright? (2022/10/09)
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
- People are wrong on the internet, AI edition (2024/08/10)
- The conservative-radical split over AI (2023/11/19)
- Hyperinflation in the attention economy: what succeeds adverts? (2017/11/21)
- Musk City, Antarctica (2017/11/18)
- The end of human labour is inevitable, here's why (2017/11/17)
- Oh no (2019/10/25)
- Memetic monocultures (2019/12/30)
- Bioprinted fairy drones (2021/05/22)
- Sufficient technology (2020/03/06)
- Mistakes (2020/05/31)
- Post-scarcity (2020/06/10)
- Hyperloop's secondary purposes (2018/05/22)
- Pocket brains (2018/10/01)
- Old predictions, and how they've been standing up (2018/07/17)
- Thought crime in 2084 (2018/09/22)
- How would you know whether an A.I. was a person or not? (2018/06/17)
- The Singularity is Dead, Long Live The Singularity (2016/04/12)
- The near future (2016/04/08)
Health
- Blasphemy, LARPing, mandatory vaccination (2021/11/11)
- Why do some people hate masks? (2021/06/14)
- Ohne Kaffee (2020/03/17)
- Truthiness & COVID denial by the dying (2020/11/20)
- Attention ec — ooh, a squirrel (2018/09/16)
- Alzheimer's (2018/01/31)
Humour
- AGI to match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags (2022/12/13)
- Head cannon: Wallace & Grommit (2023/02/20)
- Tasteless humour (2017/05/30)
- The Totally Credible Heroes (2019/08/12)
- Mote of smartdust (2018/02/16)
- Word avalanche (2018/12/21)
- Brexit RPG (2018/12/12)
Maps
mathematics
Minds
- LaMDA, Turing Test, sentience (2022/06/18)
- Unthinkable thoughts (2024/04/30)
- Blasphemy, LARPing, mandatory vaccination (2021/11/11)
- Arguments, hill climbing, the wisdom of the crowds (2021/12/27)
- Sufficient technology (2020/03/06)
- Hypothesise first, test later (2020/03/02)
- Truthiness & COVID denial by the dying (2020/11/20)
- Baysean Brexit (2018/09/18)
- One person's nit is another's central pillar (2018/09/21)
- Attention ec — ooh, a squirrel (2018/09/16)
- Thought crime in 2084 (2018/09/22)
- A.I. safety with Democracy? (2018/08/11)
- Dynamic range of Bayesian thought (2018/08/05)
Noteworthy
Opinion
- An end to copyright? (2022/10/09)
- LaMDA, Turing Test, sentience (2022/06/18)
- The More they Overthink the Plumbing… (2024/04/07)
- Head cannon: Wallace & Grommit (2023/02/20)
- Oh no (2019/10/25)
- Medical-Computer analogies (2019/08/26)
- Memetic monocultures (2019/12/30)
- The worst form of government except for all the others (2020/01/16)
- Post-scarcity (2020/06/10)
- Hypocrisy (2020/06/09)
Personal
- The 1950s (ish) according to my mother (2019/02/14)
- Ohne Kaffee (2020/03/17)
- Mistakes (2020/05/31)
- Truthiness & COVID denial by the dying (2020/11/20)
- Self-teaching | Selbstlernen (2018/10/16)
Philosophy
- LaMDA, Turing Test, sentience (2022/06/18)
- Unthinkable thoughts (2024/04/30)
- Dot product morality (2019/05/25)
- Memetic monocultures (2019/12/30)
- Arguments, hill climbing, the wisdom of the crowds (2021/12/27)
- Sufficient technology (2020/03/06)
- To believe falsely (2020/04/15)
- Morality, thy discount is hyperbolic (2020/01/08)
- Nietzsche, Facebook, and A.I. (2018/02/06)
- One person's nit is another's central pillar (2018/09/21)
- A.I. safety with Democracy? (2018/08/11)
- Mathematical Universe v. Boltzmann Brains (2018/08/26)
- Normalised, n-dimensional, utility monster (2018/01/21)
- Unfortunate personhood tests for A.I. (2018/06/21)
- How would you know whether an A.I. was a person or not? (2018/06/17)
- A life's work (2018/12/23)
Poetry
Politics
- Spendable votes (2024/04/24)
- Crypto-[graphy|currency]: two cultures (2024/05/25)
- Andrew Neil interviews Theresa Maykov-bot (2017/05/23)
- Irish border, WTO rules, Brexit (2017/11/27)
- Oh no (2019/10/25)
- History, according to the British (2019/07/12)
- Sufficient technology (2020/03/06)
- Mistakes (2020/05/31)
- If you wanted to steal an election… (2020/08/15)
- The worst form of government except for all the others (2020/01/16)
- Hypocrisy (2020/06/09)
Cherry-manning?Nut picking (2018/02/02)- Brexit as an example of failure to comprehend conditional probabilities (2018/10/22)
- Falsifiability (2018/10/01)
- Baysean Brexit (2018/09/18)
- Thought crime in 2084 (2018/09/22)
- A.I. safety with Democracy? (2018/08/11)
- Voting: do or do not? (2018/08/31)
- Open borders (2018/08/28)
- Brexit RPG (2018/12/12)
- EU (2016/05/09)
Professional
- The More they Overthink the Plumbing… (2024/04/07)
- Finding the smallest value in a Swift array of Integers (2018/10/26)
- Utility function of meetings (2018/01/29)
Psychology
- Unthinkable thoughts (2024/04/30)
- Why do some people hate masks? (2021/06/14)
- Arguments, hill climbing, the wisdom of the crowds (2021/12/27)
- Hypothesise first, test later (2020/03/02)
- Brexit as an example of failure to comprehend conditional probabilities (2018/10/22)
- One person's nit is another's central pillar (2018/09/21)
- Attention ec — ooh, a squirrel (2018/09/16)
- Social media compulsion (2018/08/31)
- Must we laugh to change our mind? (2018/01/27)
- Alzheimer's (2018/01/31)
- Unlearnable (2018/06/26)
- How would you know whether an A.I. was a person or not? (2018/06/17)
- A life's work (2018/12/23)
Scams
Science
- No, a black hole can’t be used as a rocket (2022/05/14)
- Can a Casimir cavity be used to construct true negative mass metamaterials? (2017/04/20)
- Railgun notes (2017/04/10)
- You won't believe how fast transistors are (2017/11/26)
- If I'm right about this, it's luck, not skill. (2017/11/19)
- Why do people look by touching? (2017/07/27)
- Railgun notes #2 (2017/08/05)
- Vision (2017/06/18)
- Falcon 9 to scale (2017/06/06)
- I am not a quantum physicist (2017/12/18)
- Electrodynamic Lagrange points and fusion reactors (2019/05/31)
- Homeopathic solutions to the Fermi paradox (2019/01/07)
- Bioprinted fairy drones (2021/05/22)
- Baryon asymmetry (2021/02/09)
- Point an infrared thermometer at the sky (2021/02/12)
- How big might real wormholes be? (2021/07/31)
- SciFi: The unexpected problems with gravity (2021/07/17)
- Hypothesise first, test later (2020/03/02)
- Kessler-resistant real-life force-fields? (2018/02/05)
- How would you know whether an A.I. was a person or not? (2018/06/17)
- The Singularity is Dead, Long Live The Singularity (2016/04/12)
SciFi
- Head cannon: Wallace & Grommit (2023/02/20)
- Megastructures (2017/01/03)
- SciFi: The unexpected problems with gravity (2021/07/17)
- Sufficient technology (2020/03/06)
- Trek head-cannon (2020/06/27)
- Kessler-resistant real-life force-fields? (2018/02/05)
- Headcannon (2018/06/27)
Software
- An end to copyright? (2022/10/09)
- LaMDA, Turing Test, sentience (2022/06/18)
- Executable images (2017/04/10)
- Just because you can, doesn't mean you should (2017/05/19)
- Hyperinflation in the attention economy: what succeeds adverts? (2017/11/21)
- Being embarrassed by your old work is a sign you've learned things (2017/09/15)
- Automated detection of propaganda and cultural bias (2017/06/23)
- Berlin public transport map (2019/06/01)
- Speed of machine intelligence (2018/03/16)
- Finding the smallest value in a Swift array of Integers (2018/10/26)
- Anatomy of a scam, and LiveJournal's lost passwords (2018/08/09)
- Social media compulsion (2018/08/31)
- The Singularity is Dead, Long Live The Singularity (2016/04/12)
Technology
- An end to copyright? (2022/10/09)
- LaMDA, Turing Test, sentience (2022/06/18)
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
- The More they Overthink the Plumbing… (2024/04/07)
- The conservative-radical split over AI (2023/11/19)
- Railgun notes (2017/04/10)
- You won't believe how fast transistors are (2017/11/26)
- Hyperinflation in the attention economy: what succeeds adverts? (2017/11/21)
- Musk City, Antarctica (2017/11/18)
- Railgun notes #2 (2017/08/05)
- Automated detection of propaganda and cultural bias (2017/06/23)
- Falcon 9 to scale (2017/06/06)
- iOS or Android? (2017/06/15)
- A mole of bytes (2019/07/11)
- Bioprinted fairy drones (2021/05/22)
- Point an infrared thermometer at the sky (2021/02/12)
- SciFi: The unexpected problems with gravity (2021/07/17)
- Sufficient technology (2020/03/06)
- Post-scarcity (2020/06/10)
- Hyperloop's secondary purposes (2018/05/22)
- Kessler-resistant real-life force-fields? (2018/02/05)
- Social media compulsion (2018/08/31)
- The Singularity is Dead, Long Live The Singularity (2016/04/12)
Transhumanism
- An end to copyright? (2022/10/09)
- LaMDA, Turing Test, sentience (2022/06/18)
- Head cannon: Wallace & Grommit (2023/02/20)
- The conservative-radical split over AI (2023/11/19)
- Sufficient technology (2020/03/06)
Uncategorized
- Tasteless humour (2017/05/30)
- Newcomb’s Assured Destruction (2019/11/23)
- Tryin' out wordpress (2016/03/09)
- The passage of time (2016/11/10)