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Essays
Long-form arguments on intelligence, consciousness, software, and meaning.
Oct 31, 2026 Radiation, Taste, and the Rewired Brain Sep 26, 2026 I stayed 20 mins in an ice bath and got sick for 2 months Aug 22, 2026 I use books to program and deprogram myself Feb 16, 2025 Consciousness and Entropy Dec 28, 2024 agi is overrated Dec 28, 2024 stoic negative visualizations vs pessimism Dec 20, 2024 The New Money Making Landscape Dec 19, 2024 on working hard Aug 4, 2024 real want Jul 28, 2024 Inner Scorecard for Personal Growth Apr 27, 2024 the cpu will die and gpu thrive Apr 14, 2024 on strategy games
Older essays 26
Mar 14, 2024 why found a startup Jan 13, 2024 human machine interface evolution Dec 13, 2023 On herd mentality Nov 18, 2023 God Is Dead and ChatGPT is the new God Sep 24, 2023 bits and atoms Sep 24, 2023 fast iteration - software vs hardware Sep 23, 2023 build a sense of urgency inside and overdeliver outside Sep 13, 2023 the programmer syndrome Sep 9, 2023 problem pool and warfare Jun 26, 2023 Life Entropy Death Apr 27, 2023 Epistemological simplicity and software abstractions Apr 13, 2023 The evolutionary need for consciousness Apr 1, 2023 Leveraging LLMs with mental models Mar 21, 2023 Existential risk and ChatGPT apprehension of Asimov laws Mar 2, 2023 Embeddings in the human mind Feb 11, 2023 Mesa optimization Feb 7, 2023 Parental Selection in Human Evolution Jan 25, 2023 Consciousness Jan 22, 2023 Humans are pretty good at human games Jan 15, 2023 Compliment Jan 9, 2023 The observer is the observed Jan 9, 2023 Try catch is the dark matter of start-ups Jan 4, 2023 Biology and altruism and egoism Jan 4, 2023 Intelligence is now about good prompts Dec 24, 2022 Google Search chances of survival vs large language models Dec 16, 2022 Success
Timeless
— A large part of artificial intelligence is a copy of organic intelligence — AI merely learns a blurred map of the territory — Anthropology is not scientific — Beauty from the perspective of old and new brain — CAPTCHA is an anti concurrency weapon developed by Google — Disjointed thinking — Diverging from Epistemic consensus — Eugenics — Extraterrestrial life do not have time to evolve before the end of the simulation — Fine tuned Universe — Genetic diversity is good but genetic diversity is evil — How much we should delegate to the machines
More timeless pieces 38
— Humans are in a Red Queen competition with artificial intelligence — Inferential distance — If you do not practice philosophy, you are merely a robot — Innovation — Is intelligence purposeful computation — Language games — law vs integrity — LLMs are extending the number of operations we can perform without conscious thought — Modern programming is all about low entropy conversation starters — Most computer programs are fragile — Not getting fooled by appearance — Philosophaster — Philosopher — Pivot — Purpose — Relativity and language — Robosexuality — Silver Rule — Simulation theory — Software 2.0 — Sprints are more efficient than marathons — The absurdity of Turing machine's local state — The asymmetry of second law of thermodynamics — The invisible magic of words — The dream of Episteme — The Victory Of Man At Nature's Game — Time flowing is an illusion — Truth is a Pathless Land — Understanding is freedom, freedom is understanding — Valuation — We are optimized for survival not for understanding physics — We are unaware of aliens because they live in the level two unobservable multiverse — We have evolved to search for a purpose, not to find one — Why AI does not understand — Why death exists — Why Discord fails to restrict noise — Why women care more for prettiness — Writing