[civilisation]

  • The Most Profitable Algorithm

    Profit-maximising algorithms create resource foundations that enable power-maximising systems, which will develop the complexity necessary for emergence beyond civilisation.
  • A Society of Rick Rubins

    The roadmap to a society of Rick Rubins.
  • Civilisation Goals (2020-2100)

    Transcendence 101: mapping humanity's great transition in the 21st century and beyond.
  • How Agents Will Accelerate Research

    New context-space reasoning will affect the way we conduct research and define 'reasoning'.
  • Understanding Workforce Automation

    Developing better models to understand the impact of machine learning and robotics on the workforce.
  • Pervasive Machines: Three Stages of Superintelligence

    Stage One: AGI Tools, Stage Two: AGI Emergence, Stage Three: Later Generations of AGI and the post-intelligence explosion.
  • Pervasive Machines: Learning to Live with Superintelligence

    Analysing short timelines: By 2025, advanced neural networks will create and distribute apps, outperform humans at any short computer task, and generate coherent short films.
  • The Holy Grail of Invention

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

    Exploring the nuances of strong, accelerating trends in technology; compounding growth effects and making predictions in the age of the post-singularity.
  • A Timeline for Artificial Intelligence

    A comprehensive timeline of artificial intelligence development, the Turing Test, and key milestones looking forward.
  • A Brief History of Technology

    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.

[brains]

  • The Technology Emits The Genius

    What we get wrong about the lone genius.
  • Horror Maximisation

    As we abstract away from the baseline from a cultural and technological point of view, we can expect new worlds of 'hyper-horror' to emerge.
  • The Moral Objective Function

    This blogpost is my best attempt at steelmanning objective morality in order to build an Asimov-style Foundation model imbued with values from the outset.
  • Myths, Memes, and a Distaste for Uncertainty

    Memetics: Exploring the concept of demagoguery and poor politics, Aldeous Huxley, and kippers.
  • Substrate Independence

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

[hierarchies]

  • Religious Evolution

    Evolutionary bottlenecks, the Anna Karenina principle, and the Conservation of Ninjutsu are all underestimated aspects of the religious equation.
  • Understanding Emergence

    Combining Wolfram and Friston's frameworks to better characterise the idea of a universal assembly function. Proposal of MESA Theory: multi-computational self-assembly theory with respect to the free energy principle.
  • Holacracy at Zappos

    Analysis of Holacracy and leadership through the lens of Tony Hsieh and the “Zappos family” in the growth and success of online retailer Zappos.

[economics]

  • Economics of Tesla

    Analysis of three strategic operational process used to create value at the UK electric vehicle pioneer, including manufacturing, stage-gate model and competition.
  • Limits of Economic Growth

    Conversation with Dr Michael Hatcher, Dr Serhiy Stepanchuk, Dr Alex Mennuni at University of Southampton.
  • Post-Mortem Of The Mini-Budget

    Talk by Professors Hatcher, Stepanchuk, Gall and Mennuni at University of Southampton after Liz Truss mini-budget.
  • Strategic Analysis of Deliveroo

    Examination of the UK food market pioneer financials, the three-sided marketplace dynamics, and the gig economy transformation process.
  • Economic Development in Morocco

    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.

[longevity]

  • Living Long Enough to Live Forever

    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 the endless lifespan.
  • The War on Death

    Exploring the history of longevity in mythology, Death 1.0 and 2.0, 'The Spinning Vinyl' of aging, 'hypercentinarians', and how we hope to eliminate non-communicable disease.

[market-failure]

  • ffrancis William Shakespeare

    A repository of evidence that “William Shake-speare” was instead the literary arm of Francis Bacon and his writing practice.
  • When Freemium Goes Too Far

    The market failure of Hybrid Products = (Intrinsic Good + Software Service) is egregious.
  • Antitrust: Google Fitbit v. Apple

    An antitrust analysis of Google's $2.1B Fitbit acquisition and its implications for consumer choice in the wearables market.