The Future of AI and the Path to Artificial General Intelligence
On what general intelligence would actually require
If intelligence is the capacity to act well amid entropy and ambiguity, rather than merely to reduce complexity, then the framework that bounds the machine also begins to illuminate the mind, how human cognition makes meaning out of disorder, and perhaps how sentience itself emerges from the attempt.
The Evolution of Complexity, Entropy, and Ambiguity in a Perception System
How perception systems trade certainty for reach
The Rise of the AI-Enabled Masters: How Complexity Reduction Creates a Digital Oligarchy
The Paradox of Belief: Richard Dawkins, God, and the Cognitive Evolution of Entropic Feedback Loops
Beautiful and Sublime Things
On extreme patriotism, conscription, and what we lose when the right to disagree is taken for granted
The Terrible Job
You are an entrepreneur when you wake up on payday with no money in the bank — and somehow find some by the end of the day.
Domains of Disbelief
I am an atheist. My closest friend during my years in America was a Pennsylvania pastor.
The Three Skills People Will Not Learn
An observation on why presentation, negotiation, and cold calling are the most reluctantly acquired skills in business, and the most disproportionately rewarded
The Over-Manage / Under-Manage Cycle
An observation on why most management is really firefighting, and why the harder craft is knowing where to let the fire burn