Humans are not automatically strategic, yet there has never been an easier time to stumble onto a strongly dominant strategy.

Personal AI workforces are forming. The question is whether you control yours.

All jobs are exposed to natural selection; at work, if you do not evolve, you are doomed to be replaced by the intern, by the market, by new technology, or all three. But some jobs are far more exposed to creative disruption than others, and the champions of these professions...

When will we see the first truly autonomous profit-maximising algorithms? As we approach an era where artificial intelligence can clone professional expertise across industries, the question of algorithmic entrepreneurship becomes increasingly relevant.

The founder of Fog Creek Software once wrote, “Your first priority as the manager of a software team is building the development abstraction layer.” In a software team, if a programmer is wrestling with a broken chair, is irritated by the heat and a loud office, the abstraction has, in...

My favourite quote of all time is Edward Wilson’s “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.”

The Modern Anti-Pattern

The myth of the prodigious, lone genius discovering truth in isolation is one of humanity’s most preferred stories: Ramanujan discovering advanced mathematics by himself from a single textbook in rural India; Einstein revolutionising physics while working as a patent clerk; Mozart composing symphonies as a gifted child. These romantic narratives...

This work began as a study of the phenomena captured beautifully by the notion of “emergence” and developed into an elegant theory of the physics of self-organisation. It combines Wolfram and Friston’s mathematical frameworks with complexity theory to better characterise the idea of a “universal assembly function”.

New Mediums of Freak

To distill this essay into a couple sentences: The goal should be to build a Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ model: imbued with wise, well understood values and goals from the outset, so that as it grows in power and influence, it guides humanity away from tyranny and destruction (and towards the a...

Shedding some light on how we’re using LLMs, and where we’re going.

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This is the second part of my Pervasive Machines series.

This is the first part of my Pervasive Machines series.

Hybrid products consist of both physical and service components. The physical part has intrinsic value — like a car - while the service part complements the usage of the good — like an app for unlocking your car remotely, or summoning it from far away.

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On the concepts of an infinite rate of innovation, the “most dangerous algoritm” in the world, the new gods of Homo Sapiens, and the tools we can use to automate learning entirely.

Minutes from my discussion with Dr Michael Hatcher, Dr Serhiy Stepanchuk, Dr Alex Mennuni. These are my minutes; so, my interpretation of the ideas discussed, and my paraphrasing.

Discussants: Dr Alessandro Mennuni, Dr Michael Hatcher, Dr Serhiy Stepanchuk, Dr Thomas Gall. Distinguished Professors of Economics specialising in Fiscal Policy, Monetary Economics, Endogenous Growth Theory, and Public Economics, respectively.

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Understanding the nuances of strong, accelerating trends in technology that can be fed back into themselves is the reccuring theme of this blog. I find the implications of these trends to be the strongest axioms for making predictions about the future of our civilisation.

This is the second part of my “Bio-Hacking and Cyborging” series. To read into humanity’s relationship with immortality, see my previous essay. Read on about the only known immortal organisms, the problems modern medicine faces in making us as old as Methuselah, Longevity Escape Velocity, and the dark horse of...

Technology will give us the Fountain of Youth. Exploring the history of longevity in mythology, how we can categorise death by its two eras, “The Spinning Vinyl” of aging, “hypercentinarians”, and how we hope to eliminate non-communicable disease.

Memetics: Exploring the concept of demagoguery and poor politics, Aldeous Huxley, and kippers

A survey of Moroccan economics on the world stage by comparison of the developments, challenges, and avenues for policy change that stand to alleviate historical demographic problems as Morocco becomes a global trade partner and figurehead of the Arab world. Cover: Marrakesh Medina Jemaa el-Fnaa, twilight.

Exploring the reductionist stories of life and consciousness, the origin of living organisms, fitness and natural selection, substrate-independent phenomena, and what all this means for us as a species.

The following essay covers machine learning from its infant days to full self-driving. I intend to crystallise how and why computers have developed in the way they have, and why future machines will be far more advanced.

Exploration of the common narrative about the history of invention, the acceleration of technological innovation, and the driving force behind unprecedented growth in the 21st century.