On AI

Artificial intelligence chatbots have achieved unprecedented adoption, with millions now using these systems for emotional support and companionship in contexts of widespread social isolation and capacity-constrained mental health services. While some users report psychological benefits, concerning edge cases are emerging, including reports of suic

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OpenBrain scientist at “research taste” (deciding what to study next, what experiments to run, or having inklings of potential new paradigms).45

The mainstream narrative around AI has changed from “maybe the hype will blow over” to “guess this is the next big thing,” but people disagree about how big. Bigger than social media? Bigger than smartphones? Bigger than fire?

We're trying to do things the slow way, the way that sucks up time

In one of those interviews, this guy David says that the promise of things like technology and AI is to give us more time to do the things that we want to do. But the problem is, it hasn't ended up that way. What that promise has done, is killed is this idea of ceremony that we need so deeply. That's why people go to church, it's why people have fr... See more

In a world where we are drunk on innovation, and we're always chasing the new thing, the fast thing, the algorithm and the AI of it all, we’ve forgotten the most incredible of things – the old things, the timeline of things, and the sacred ways of creating that are not innovative.