What would we do differently if we could see the connection between how we spend our time and the suffering that arises from it later?
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A Geiger-Counter for Viral Risk
The story of a viral survival tool built from technology we already have.
read moreGrowing a General Intelligence with Cellular Automata and the Free-Energy Principle
Embryonic AGI is everywhere
BitOoda. Levelset. Pyka. RareCyte. I know nothing about them except that they're each an AGI play. Just like all the other tech startups.
read moreAll AGI efforts so far are fundamentally unsafe. OpenCog included.
Every AGI effort you’ve heard of is fundamentally unsafe. What Google is doing with DeepMind and Brain is unsafe. Whatever OpenAI is doing is unsafe.
read moreWho Cares What Intelligence Is! What Does Intelligence Do?
We haven't agreed yet on what intelligence is. But that doesn't matter because, like gravity, we can measure what it does.
read moreEvery new technology startup is an embryonic AGI
AGI doesn't have to be as mysterious and worrisome as we often imagine it to be.
read moreA Fix For Climate Risk: It's the attention economy, stupid
The solution to our Climate Risk challenge is staring us in the face. It's the attention economy, stupid.
read moreTo Solve Climate Risk, Fix the Framing (Part 1)
Every idea, message, or work of art that goes global is impeccably framed.
read moreThe Interface Neuroid
Interface Neuroids enable any person to digitize their mind.
read moreInverting the Effects of Facebook
Imagine a social network that inverts Facebook - and Twitter, and LinkedIn, and SnapChat - in almost every way, while still being an online social network.
read moreThe Survival of What, Exactly?
Survival is at the root of all passions. But the survival of what, exactly?
read moreProtecting My Young Sons From YouTube, Video Games, and NetFlix
How exactly should I protect my sons from YouTube, video games, NetFlix, and TV? What I am doing may surprise you.
read moreThe Universe According to Tinder
There's only two rules to Tinder: 1) Be attractive 2) Don't be unattractive.
read moreFixing the Facebook problem with the Pilot Wave Transport Protocol
Reinventing both online advertising and the social network with the Pilot Wave Transport Protocol
read moreFive Occasions When Facts Don't Matter
While facts and logic surely have some value, here's five occasions when we can all agree they don't matter much.
read moreMeasuring Intelligence Without a Test
There's a way better measure of intelligence than sitting down to take a test.
read moreThe Best Time to Advertise to Someone
Have you ever been bombarded with ads for an item immediately after you purchased it? I bet that struck you as immeasurably stupid.
read moreA Religion For The High-Tech 21st Century
It's time for a religion that uses technology to answer the hard questions of life.
read moreA terrifying new theory of intelligence that's actually pretty genius yet so shocking your jaw will drop when you learn who is WAY smarter than you.
When effectiveness is all that matters, the measure of your intelligence is the measure of your effect.
read moreThe Cold Logic Behind Emotion, Gangnam Style
Emotions are often a mystery in the moment yet there's a cold logic underlying them and our behavior in general.
read moreMy personal classical-conditioning system is online and working fine. I think.
Classical conditioning is what Pavlov did to his research dogs so that they salivated at the sound of a bell. In my case, I'm using software of my own design to manipulate my base psychology in a way that's surprisingly simple and effective.
read moreThe Perverse Incentive of Google AdSense
AdSense is merely 0.05% efficient because Google has every incentive to keep it that way. Put another way, Google’s business would be severely diminished if AdSense was much more than 0.05% efficient.
read moreReplicating the universe by digitizing our own behavior
If we were to digitize our own behavior in the greatest possible detail of action, the result would be a complete replication of our mind, body, cellular life, physics, and the universe as far down as it can be represented by waves. Or points, for that matter.
read moreFail-Safe AGI. Why worry? Let's do it right the first time.
Unless we design our AGI to be fundamentally fail-safe from the start, we put ourselves at risk of a horrible, unrecoverable error.
read moreAdvancing to a perfectly persuasive digital system
Every personal computer is now a tool of persuasion, but mostly not for our benefit. Perfect persuasion requires the individual to come first.
read moreComputers are stupid because we select them for stupidity
If we were selecting for intelligence the past twenty years, we'd have intelligent computers by now. Instead, our computers are stupid because we have been, in evolutionary terms, selecting for stupidity.
read moreTinkering toward AGI
The modern quest for Artificial General Intelligence is strong on Artificial but weak on Intelligence. I've chosen to attack the problem of AGI from a different angle: strong on General Intelligence but initially weak on Artificial.
read moreMy computer has psychic powers
My computer can read my mind, see into my future, and also has a pretty good idea of the state of my kitchen. It’s like a crystal ball that actually works. And it’s awesome.
read moreThree laws to fix online advertising
Online advertising is a huge problem that affects everyone who uses the Internet. While the problem seems intractable, I'm introducing three laws to clean up this mess.
read moreA social network of probability waves
Your behavior is a superimposed bundle of waves that can be isolated into eigenfunctions to become the next-generation mode of digital communication.
read moreA New Breed of Binary
This higher-level type of binary uses prediction to help solve distinctly human problems, in contrast to classic binary which is best applied to logical problems.
read moreCountering Surveillance Capitalism
While we might feel that there’s nothing we can do about deeply entrenched Surveillance Capitalism, that’s only a feeling. The reality is that we can use all of their techniques against them. Doing that is much easier and more accessible than we think and the benefits are limited only by our imaginations.
read moreLet’s Do Semi-Autonomous Cars Instead
Semi-Autonomous swarming cars can replace both individual commuters and mass transit, offering the efficiency and safety of autonomous cars while keeping each person in control.
read moreBe A Hero, Save The World.
There’s a single core problem tying all of the others together and it’s a problem anyone can help solve. Our core problem is that we are up to our eyeballs in low-quality information. If we each had a tool that safely dialed up the quality of our information diet, we’d gain the power to solve any of our problems.
read moreWe're Overvaluing The Internet
The rewards of the Internet are not its value. Unless we also look closely at its risks, we have no idea what its value to us really is. Our behavior tends to become distorted when our sense of value is twisted by obscured risk.
read moreHow To Kill Online Advertising
Online advertising feeds on personal information and will die without it. We can kill it by capturing the value of our own information for personal gain, starving the beast in favor of nourishing ourselves.
read moreThe Simplest Personal Computer
The simplest personal computer is a button that is pressed when a person takes an action. The resulting time series enables prediction and analysis. More buttons of this type, properly organized, leads to greater power.
read moreA New Hope For Personal Computing
Outlining a type of computer whose sole function is to provide value to an individual. It is, by its nature, value. Like a gaming console does entertainment, this computer does value and nothing else.
read moreA Feminine Computer
The fundamental masculinity of computers has entrenched their direction, reducing their overall potential. We can restore this potential by balancing the masculine with feminine principles, resulting in a type of personal computer that's much more aligned with an individual.
read moreSoftware To Solve Any Problem
Problems are signals from our environments telling us to adapt, so to solve problems we must adapt our behavior. Software which amplifies our ability to adapt thus helps us solve any problem.
read moreThe Anti-Google: Part II
By using Google as the reference for anti-individuality, inverting every aspect of its nature provides the blueprint for putting (and keeping) individual interests first.
read moreAutomatic Group Activities
Group activities can be automatically proposed when each person shares a rough pattern of an activity they enjoy. When these patterns are treated as waves and superimposed, peaks indicate a group opportunity.
read moreThe Basic Algorithm
In the right environment, behavior prediction is much simpler than we think. Linear next-occurence prediction is surprisingly effective when the underlying information is of very high quality and part of a tight feedback loop.
read moreThe Anti-Google: Part I
Instead of ad networks like Google capturing information about you and using it to predict your behavior, collect it yourself and capture the value. This legitimizes the online information economy, putting each individual in control, simplifying everything.
read moreIncredible Reward
Risking it All
Risk and Reward
A Computer With Borders
Tolerance Is No Virtue
A Good Option
It's easy to be hopeful when you always have a good option at your fingertips. A feeling of hopelessness is a latent demand for a good option.
read moreInternet Not Required
Poor Choices, Poor Person
Information Piracy
You Are A Gold Mine
Do You Love Your Computer?