programming
Why I Don't Like to Build Trading Bots
Building products creates something new that didn’t exist before. Trading mainly redistributes existing value.
ai
ai
ARC-AGI: The Efficiency Story the Leaderboards Don't Show
ARC-AGI is a benchmark designed to test genuine reasoning ability. Each task shows a few input-output examples, and you have to figure out the pattern and apply it to a new input. No memorization, no pattern matching against training data. Just pure abstraction and reasoning on challenging visual problems. It&
ai
Charter for the Self-Sustaining AI/Robot Community
Preamble This Charter defines the goals, limits, and responsibilities of a self-sustaining AI/robot community (the Steward System, TSS). TSS is created first and foremost to reduce involuntary human suffering: to protect living humans from large-scale harms such as war, torture, famine, preventable disease, and catastrophic risks. Beyond this immediate
philosophy
Universal Causal Language
An experimental language that attempts to express causality across code, language, law, music, and biology
philosophy
Higher Orders of Possibility
What new forms of thought, feeling, or morality might emerge in a higher order of intelligence beyond our own?
music
I Made Some Songs With Suno
I've made a lot of strange songs with Suno. I usually like to experiment with weird mashups of different genres, and most of them are rubbish. I thought I would share a couple of the more "listenable" songs. Disclaimer: None of these are amazing, and some
philosophy
The Matrix v0.0.1-alpha
Is this The Matrix? No. But it's certainly something to think about.
ai
The Meaning Of Life According to ChatGPT
"All right," said the computer, and settled into silence again. The two men fidgeted. The tension was unbearable. "You're really not going to like it," observed Deep Thought. "Tell us!" "All right," said Deep Thought. "The Answer to the
web-design
Creating a new favicon with text-to-image AI
It's been a while since I wrote a blog post about creating a favicon.ico file for your website or blog. Things have changed a bit since I wrote that blog post in May 2010. I've been updating the CSS for my blog recently, and I