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?

The story of a viral survival tool built from technology we already have.

BitOoda. Levelset. Pyka. RareCyte. I know nothing about them except that they're each an AGI play. Just like all the other tech startups.

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.

We haven't agreed yet on what intelligence is. But that doesn't matter because, like gravity, we can measure what it does.

AGI doesn't have to be as mysterious and worrisome as we often imagine it to be.

The solution to our Climate Risk challenge is staring us in the face. It's the attention economy, stupid.

Every idea, message, or work of art that goes global is impeccably framed.

Interface Neuroids enable any person to digitize their mind.

Imagine a social network that inverts Facebook - and Twitter, and LinkedIn, and SnapChat - in almost every way, while still being an online social network.

Survival is at the root of all passions. But the survival of what, exactly?

How exactly should I protect my sons from YouTube, video games, NetFlix, and TV? What I am doing may surprise you.

There's only two rules to Tinder: 1) Be attractive 2) Don't be unattractive.

Reinventing both online advertising and the social network with the Pilot Wave Transport Protocol

A two-year time-lapse of how well I've been doing, as recorded using Benome and visualized using Benome itself.

While facts and logic surely have some value, here's five occasions when we can all agree they don't matter much.

There's a way better measure of intelligence than sitting down to take a test.

Have you ever been bombarded with ads for an item immediately after you purchased it? I bet that struck you as immeasurably stupid.

It's time for a religion that uses technology to answer the hard questions of life.

When effectiveness is all that matters, the measure of your intelligence is the measure of your effect.

Emotions are often a mystery in the moment yet there's a cold logic underlying them and our behavior in general.

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.

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.

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.

Unless we design our AGI to be fundamentally fail-safe from the start, we put ourselves at risk of a horrible, unrecoverable error.

Every personal computer is now a tool of persuasion, but mostly not for our benefit. Perfect persuasion requires the individual to come first.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Your behavior is a superimposed bundle of waves that can be isolated into eigenfunctions to become the next-generation mode of digital communication.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A 268-day time-lapse of my actions recorded using Benome, visualized using Benome itself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The way to a new direction is through value. For individuals to realize the value of their personal information, a first-hand experience of the potential returns is needed. Yet there is little chance of anyone being open to these realizations without an effortless beginning combined with a tremendous value proposition.

An ideal personal computer, one we thrive with rather than tolerate, becomes a mirror of ourselves.

Each of us is an involuntary participant in the information economy and we are being taken advantage of. We can change that situation treating all of our personal information like we treat our personal property.

A perspective on beginnings in which I describe a general beginning, relate beginnings to our daily experiences, and then introduce a version of technology based on those ideas. The premises of the technology are different from what we are familiar with and so its effects will be different as well.