Cam Jones

A mind with the ability to create new knowledge will necessarily be a universal explainer, meaning it will converge upon good moral explanations. If it’s more advanced than us, it will be morally superior to us: the trope of a superintelligent AI obsessively converting the universe into paperclips is exactly as silly as it sounds.

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Travers suggests that recovery begins with clarity: unplug, reflect, and realign your behavior with your values. Without that step, even success can feel empty. But when alignment returns, so does a sense of direction. You stop just managing tasks and start acting with purpose again.

Both writers stress that burnout comes not from overwork but from... See more

What risk are we radically underestimating as a species? What are we overestimating?

I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more

Stretch My Time Off

Even companies that are actually profitable (in the sense of bringing in more revenue than it costs to keep the business's lights on) love to juice their stats, and the worst offenders are the Big Tech companies, who reap a vast commercial reward from creating the illusion that they are continuing to grow, even after they've dominated their sector.... See more