Cam Jones

Hassabis is not alone in sensing the disquiet. But unlike many in his field, he is willing to make it explicit, even if only obliquely. His remarks function less as a formal philosophical position and more as a provocation, a cue for broader reflection, not a full diagnosis. That intelligence without wisdom is just entropy with good PR . That an... See more

The largely dominant meritocratic paradigm of highly competitive Western cultures is rooted on the belief that success is mainly due, if not exclusively, to personal qualities such as talent, intelligence, skills, smartness, efforts, willfulness, hard work or risk taking. Sometimes, we are willing to admit that a certain degree of luck could also

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When young people don't date or marry or start families, that's the bottleneck coming for the most basic human institutions of all.

And when, because people don't pair off and reproduce, nations age and diminish and die away, when depopulation sweeps East Asia and Latin America and Europe, as it will — that's the last squeeze, the tightest part of

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What does all this mean? If you're a programmer, you should already be exploring these tools. If you're programming-adjacent (an academic who works with data, a designer who wants to experiment with code, anyone who wants to try building a thing they are imagining) this is your moment to experiment. But there's a deeper point here: with the right... See more

The idea that the internet carries a scythe is familiar — think of Blockbuster Video, the pay phone and other early victims of the digital transition. But the scale of the potential extinction still isn't adequately appreciated.

This isn't just a normal churn where travel agencies go out of business or Netflix replaces the VCR. Everything that we

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I'm sure some of you have recognized the four circles of Ikigai.

If we want to make an impact, we must focus on Ikigai's core. The world around us keeps shifting, which means there are changes in what we love, what we're good at, what customers need, and what they will pay for . None of this is problematic, as long as we keep our focus on purpose:... See more

Meta to swap fact-checking with ‘community notes’.

The social media giant has decided to wind down its US fact-checking program in favour of Twitter/X-style community notes. CEO Mark Zuckerberg, previously the target of Trump criticism, says the changes are due to “ too many mistakes and too much censorship ”.