Reading time: ~45 minutes Simulation may inform but may not testify. The Model Who Apologized to the Void Dr. Elara Voss had not set foot in the old server farm for years. The facility, buried deep in the Nevada desert, had been a relic even when she'd last visited—a forgotten outpost of early AI experiments, … Continue reading Genesis of Minds
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After Atlas, Malthus Shrugged
"In 2014 I was visiting a university in Alaska, and happened to sit in on a lecture by the Norwegian policy expert Willy Ostreng about the new geopolitics of the Arctic. After talking about climate change in the Arctic and the increased accessibility to oil and gas, he embarked on a detailed elucidation of the … Continue reading After Atlas, Malthus Shrugged
