AI

As I reported earlier this month, OpenAI’s underwhelming GPT-5 release was a moment of reckoning for both Silicon Valley and Wall Street—an overdue reality check on the feasibility and timeframe for achieving A.G.I. or superintelligence (both terms lack agreed-upon definitions and are basically interchangeable, although the industry has recently be... See more

Jevons Paradox applies to circumstances where increased efficiency of a precious resource leads to a rise in the total consumption of that resource. In many situations, including the use and availability of semiconductors and chips for computation, and our own most personal computers (our brains), gains in efficiency do NOT lead to conservation.

But it’s certainly one of the factors driving her interest in A.I. “I think that part of the solution is making the tech go more in the background,” she told me, noting the ir

This moment feels big like religion. I won’t fall limp and complacent, rejecting AI completely and bemoaning the fall of civilization. No, I’m going to use what small agency I have as a craftsperson to shape the cultural narrative around what we should build with this fantastical bizarre machine made of all of human thought through the lens of my o... See more

won’t pretend humanity’s transition through this period will be fair and just for all people. I fully expect the megacorps hoping to monetize their hundred billion dollar investments will install pervasive surveillance harnesses, biased points of view and product placements deeper into our psyche. But we’ve learned from social media companies and t... See more

privacy is the womb.

it’s where we gestate who we are before the world gets to shape us.

take it away, & you don’t get more honesty. you get collapse. conformity. psychic suffocation.

if you love freedom, you have to love privacy.

if you care about the human spirit, you have to defend its room to breathe.

& if you still want to become something tomorrow... See more

The contest isn't between humans and machines but between two models of human-machine interaction. One treats cognition as a commodity to be optimized for frictionless consumption. The other preserves what made that blank box special: the good struggle of human curiosity meeting its limits and pushing through.