1950s
3D Printing
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
- Bioprinted fairy drones (2021/05/22)
- The Singularity is Dead, Long Live The Singularity (2016/04/12)
- The near future (2016/04/08)
addiction
advertising
AGI
AI
- An end to copyright? (2022/10/09)
- Not a Singularity but an Event Horizon (2022/09/20)
- LaMDA, Turing Test, sentience (2022/06/18)
- AGI to match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags (2022/12/13)
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
- Binary humans, nuanced AI (2024/04/29)
- The conservative-radical split over AI (2023/11/19)
- The end of human labour is inevitable, here's why (2017/11/17)
- Why do people look by touching? (2017/07/27)
- Automated detection of propaganda and cultural bias (2017/06/23)
- Memetic monocultures (2019/12/30)
- Arguments, hill climbing, the wisdom of the crowds (2021/12/27)
- Sufficient technology (2020/03/06)
- Nietzsche, Facebook, and A.I. (2018/02/06)
- Pocket brains (2018/10/01)
- A.I. safety with Democracy? (2018/08/11)
- 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)
aliens
Alzheimer's
Android
antigravity
arguments
Artificial intelligence
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
- Binary humans, nuanced AI (2024/04/29)
- A.I. safety with Democracy? (2018/08/11)
Asperger’s
attention economy
- Hyperinflation in the attention economy: what succeeds adverts? (2017/11/21)
- Post-scarcity (2020/06/10)
- Attention ec — ooh, a squirrel (2018/09/16)
autism
Bayesian
- Binary humans, nuanced AI (2024/04/29)
- One person's nit is another's central pillar (2018/09/21)
- Dynamic range of Bayesian thought (2018/08/05)
Baysean
Berlin
BFR
big bang
biology
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
- You won't believe how fast transistors are (2017/11/26)
- Why do people look by touching? (2017/07/27)
- Vision (2017/06/18)
- Blasphemy, LARPing, mandatory vaccination (2021/11/11)
- Ohne Kaffee (2020/03/17)
- Alzheimer's (2018/01/31)
Bioprinting
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
- Bioprinted fairy drones (2021/05/22)
- The near future (2016/04/08)
bitcoin
- Hyperinflation in the attention economy: what succeeds adverts? (2017/11/21)
- Anatomy of a scam, and LiveJournal's lost passwords (2018/08/09)
black swan
Boltzmann brains
border control
brain scans
brain science
- Sufficient technology (2020/03/06)
- Hypothesise first, test later (2020/03/02)
- Unlearnable (2018/06/26)
brains
- Sufficient technology (2020/03/06)
- Ohne Kaffee (2020/03/17)
- Hypothesise first, test later (2020/03/02)
- Unlearnable (2018/06/26)
Brexit
- Irish border, WTO rules, Brexit (2017/11/27)
- Oh no (2019/10/25)
- Mistakes (2020/05/31)
- Brexit as an example of failure to comprehend conditional probabilities (2018/10/22)
- Falsifiability (2018/10/01)
- Baysean Brexit (2018/09/18)
- Brexit RPG (2018/12/12)
business
Bussard
bygone times
C
caffeine
Casimir cavity
Childhood
choose your battles
civilisation
Coding
- The More they Overthink the Plumbing… (2024/04/07)
- Just because you can, doesn't mean you should (2017/05/19)
- 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)
- Utility function of meetings (2018/01/29)
coffee
cognitive bias
cognitive dissonance
comparison
comparisons
conditional probability
consciousness
- LaMDA, Turing Test, sentience (2022/06/18)
- Sufficient technology (2020/03/06)
- Hypothesise first, test later (2020/03/02)
- How would you know whether an A.I. was a person or not? (2018/06/17)
crime
cryptocurrency
debate
Democracy
- Spendable votes (2024/04/24)
- The worst form of government except for all the others (2020/01/16)
- A.I. safety with Democracy? (2018/08/11)
- Voting: do or do not? (2018/08/31)
discounting
doctors
drones
Dyson sphere
economics
- An end to copyright? (2022/10/09)
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
- Mistakes (2020/05/31)
- Post-scarcity (2020/06/10)
- Open borders (2018/08/28)
electrically confined fusion reactor
Electrodynamics
Elon Musk
emigration
ethics
- Binary humans, nuanced AI (2024/04/29)
- Sufficient technology (2020/03/06)
- Normalised, n-dimensional, utility monster (2018/01/21)
EU
exotic matter
eyes
Fake news
Falsifiability
family
Farnsworth Fusor
Fermi paradox
folding@home
forecast
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
- Old predictions, and how they've been standing up (2018/07/17)
full brain uploading
fusion reactors
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
- Electrodynamic Lagrange points and fusion reactors (2019/05/31)
fusion
future of humanity
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
- Binary humans, nuanced AI (2024/04/29)
- Morality, thy discount is hyperbolic (2020/01/08)
futurism
- An end to copyright? (2022/10/09)
- Not a Singularity but an Event Horizon (2022/09/20)
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
- Memetic monocultures (2019/12/30)
- Bioprinted fairy drones (2021/05/22)
- Sufficient technology (2020/03/06)
- Pocket brains (2018/10/01)
- Thought crime in 2084 (2018/09/22)
Futurology
- No, a black hole can’t be used as a rocket (2022/05/14)
- Not a Singularity but an Event Horizon (2022/09/20)
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
gender
German
government
GPT-3
great filter
hackers
Halo
hate mail
headcannon
hill climbing
history
- XKCD-2152 (2019/05/28)
- The 1950s (ish) according to my mother (2019/02/14)
- History, according to the British (2019/07/12)
- Blasphemy, LARPing, mandatory vaccination (2021/11/11)
- Mistakes (2020/05/31)
holodeck
hyperinflation
hyperloop
hypothesis
immigration
inflation
iOS
iPhone
iPhones
JavaScript
- Executable images (2017/04/10)
- Andrew Neil interviews Theresa Maykov-bot (2017/05/23)
- Hyperinflation in the attention economy: what succeeds adverts? (2017/11/21)
jokes
- Tasteless humour (2017/05/30)
- Must we laugh to change our mind? (2018/01/27)
- Word avalanche (2018/12/21)
Lagrange points
LaMDA
languages
leave
links
- Not a Singularity but an Event Horizon (2022/09/20)
- History, according to the British (2019/07/12)
- Homeopathic solutions to the Fermi paradox (2019/01/07)
- Memetic monocultures (2019/12/30)
- Baryon asymmetry (2021/02/09)
list
long-term future
Lt Barclay
machine learning
Markov chain
masks
math
- Can a Casimir cavity be used to construct true negative mass metamaterials? (2017/04/20)
- Railgun notes (2017/04/10)
- Railgun notes #2 (2017/08/05)
- Hᵤ(2, 2) = 4 for all u>0 (2020/07/27)
Mathematical Universe
mathematics
maths
meat puppet
meetings
megastructures
meme
metamaterials
mind uploading
Minds
misaligned incentives
Moore's Law
morality
negative mass
neologism
Neural Engine
Notes
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
- XKCD-2152 (2019/05/28)
- The 1950s (ish) according to my mother (2019/02/14)
- A mole of bytes (2019/07/11)
- Memetic monocultures (2019/12/30)
- Point an infrared thermometer at the sky (2021/02/12)
- Ohne Kaffee (2020/03/17)
- Mistakes (2020/05/31)
- Trek head-cannon (2020/06/27)
open borders
openai
Opinion
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
- The More they Overthink the Plumbing… (2024/04/07)
- Mistakes (2020/05/31)
outside context problem
paperclip optimiser
parody
past predictions
Personal
Philosophy
physics
- 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)
- Railgun notes #2 (2017/08/05)
- I am not a quantum physicist (2017/12/18)
- Baryon asymmetry (2021/02/09)
- How big might real wormholes be? (2021/07/31)
- Kessler-resistant real-life force-fields? (2018/02/05)
- Mathematical Universe v. Boltzmann Brains (2018/08/26)
plank scale
Politics
- Spendable votes (2024/04/24)
- The conservative-radical split over AI (2023/11/19)
- Automated detection of propaganda and cultural bias (2017/06/23)
- Blasphemy, LARPing, mandatory vaccination (2021/11/11)
Polywell
pop science
Post-scarcity
post-war Britain
prediction
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
- Brexit as an example of failure to comprehend conditional probabilities (2018/10/22)
- Old predictions, and how they've been standing up (2018/07/17)
Programming
- The More they Overthink the Plumbing… (2024/04/07)
- Just because you can, doesn't mean you should (2017/05/19)
- 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)
- Utility function of meetings (2018/01/29)
propaganda
- Automated detection of propaganda and cultural bias (2017/06/23)
- Memetic monocultures (2019/12/30)
- Brexit as an example of failure to comprehend conditional probabilities (2018/10/22)
Psychology
puerile
python
- Just because you can, doesn't mean you should (2017/05/19)
- Speed of machine intelligence (2018/03/16)
QR codes
questions
- Baryon asymmetry (2021/02/09)
- How big might real wormholes be? (2021/07/31)
- To believe falsely (2020/04/15)
- Post-scarcity (2020/06/10)
railgun
rationality
- Binary humans, nuanced AI (2024/04/29)
- Blasphemy, LARPing, mandatory vaccination (2021/11/11)
- Baysean Brexit (2018/09/18)
- One person's nit is another's central pillar (2018/09/21)
reasoning
reblogging
recreational mathematics
remain
reminiscence
rhetoric
Ringworld
Robotics
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
- The Singularity is Dead, Long Live The Singularity (2016/04/12)
robots
rockets
- No, a black hole can’t be used as a rocket (2022/05/14)
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
- Head cannon: Wallace & Grommit (2023/02/20)
- Falcon 9 to scale (2017/06/06)
Science Fiction
- Head cannon: Wallace & Grommit (2023/02/20)
- Megastructures (2017/01/03)
- Sapiens Plurum contest entry (2019/07/30)
- Sufficient technology (2020/03/06)
- Trek head-cannon (2020/06/27)
- Mote of smartdust (2018/02/16)
Science
- Not a Singularity but an Event Horizon (2022/09/20)
- Automated detection of propaganda and cultural bias (2017/06/23)
- Sufficient technology (2020/03/06)
- Speed of machine intelligence (2018/03/16)
- Mote of smartdust (2018/02/16)
- Dynamic range of Bayesian thought (2018/08/05)
- Mathematical Universe v. Boltzmann Brains (2018/08/26)
- Alzheimer's (2018/01/31)
SETI
SETI@home
short story
Size comparison
social media
- Hyperinflation in the attention economy: what succeeds adverts? (2017/11/21)
- Nietzsche, Facebook, and A.I. (2018/02/06)
- Attention ec — ooh, a squirrel (2018/09/16)
- Social media compulsion (2018/08/31)
software engineers
space
- No, a black hole can’t be used as a rocket (2022/05/14)
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
- Musk City, Antarctica (2017/11/18)
- Falcon 9 to scale (2017/06/06)
- Homeopathic solutions to the Fermi paradox (2019/01/07)
- Memetic monocultures (2019/12/30)
- SciFi: The unexpected problems with gravity (2021/07/17)
- Hyperloop's secondary purposes (2018/05/22)
- Kessler-resistant real-life force-fields? (2018/02/05)
spaceships
SpaceX
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
- Falcon 9 to scale (2017/06/06)
- Hyperloop's secondary purposes (2018/05/22)
Star Trek
stories
- Hieroglyphic poetry, modern and ancient (2022/05/31)
- AGI to match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags (2022/12/13)
- Sapiens Plurum contest entry (2019/07/30)
- Mote of smartdust (2018/02/16)
- Brexit RPG (2018/12/12)
superheroes
Swift
- Just because you can, doesn't mean you should (2017/05/19)
- Finding the smallest value in a Swift array of Integers (2018/10/26)
system 2 thinking
tasteless
Technocracy
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
- The worst form of government except for all the others (2020/01/16)
Technological Singularity
- An end to copyright? (2022/10/09)
- Not a Singularity but an Event Horizon (2022/09/20)
- AGI to match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags (2022/12/13)
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
- Binary humans, nuanced AI (2024/04/29)
- The conservative-radical split over AI (2023/11/19)
- Would this be a solution to the problem of literal-Genie omniscient AIs? (2017/08/09)
- Sufficient technology (2020/03/06)
- Morality, thy discount is hyperbolic (2020/01/08)
- Pocket brains (2018/10/01)
- The Singularity is Dead, Long Live The Singularity (2016/04/12)
Technology
- Not a Singularity but an Event Horizon (2022/09/20)
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
- The More they Overthink the Plumbing… (2024/04/07)
- Executable images (2017/04/10)
- The end of human labour is inevitable, here's why (2017/11/17)
- Berlin public transport map (2019/06/01)
- Memetic monocultures (2019/12/30)
- Speed of machine intelligence (2018/03/16)
- Mote of smartdust (2018/02/16)
- Attention ec — ooh, a squirrel (2018/09/16)
- Thought crime in 2084 (2018/09/22)
- Anatomy of a scam, and LiveJournal's lost passwords (2018/08/09)
testable hypothesis
The Art Of Rationality
The Boring Company
The Culture
The Guardian
theory of mind
- Arguments, hill climbing, the wisdom of the crowds (2021/12/27)
- Sufficient technology (2020/03/06)
- Hypothesise first, test later (2020/03/02)
- How would you know whether an A.I. was a person or not? (2018/06/17)
thought
UK
Utilitarianism
utility monster
Virtual cathode
vision
- Why do people look by touching? (2017/07/27)
- Vision (2017/06/18)
- Speed of machine intelligence (2018/03/16)
- Mote of smartdust (2018/02/16)
- Alzheimer's (2018/01/31)
voting
wild speculation
- Timeline of the near future (2024/03/23)
- Baryon asymmetry (2021/02/09)
- Blasphemy, LARPing, mandatory vaccination (2021/11/11)
- Sufficient technology (2020/03/06)
- Hypothesise first, test later (2020/03/02)
- Must we laugh to change our mind? (2018/01/27)