Essays

Civilization theory

The current arc, in sequence. Each essay works a different face of the Carrier Problem.

• 1. The Face of Full Effort. On Anthropic's Fable and covert capability suppression Published
• 2. Containment in Concrete. On the AI Data Center Moratorium Act Published
• 3. Frankenstein and the ethics of walking away In progress

Canonical home is Substack; also mirrored to Medium and shared on LinkedIn.

Foundations & earlier writing

Earlier essays on synthetic intelligence, machine learning, and computer science, 2018–2021. Kept as the record of where the current work came from.

• Walking into the Self: A Thesis on Circumambulation 2021
• Artificial Intelligence and Epistemology 2019
• Practical Logic 2019
• Cybernetics and Cybersecurity 2019
• Conjuring Propositions 2019
• Threats to Machine Learning 2019
• Integrity of Data 2019
• What is an Environment 2019
• On Truth Tables 2019
• The Discomfort of AI 2019
• What is Computer Science 2019
• What is an Agent 2019
• What is Propositional Logic 2019
• Bias and Extreme Edges 2019
• Finding the Root 2019
• Cost Functions 2019
• Decision Trees Finalized 2019
• Machine Learning Algorithm Overview 2019
• Understanding Decision Trees 2018
• Machine Learning: A Guide for the Perplexed 2018
• Synthetic Intelligence and Its Type of Mind 2018
• Time Perception in Synthetic Intelligence: Why It's Important 2018
• How Will Synthetic Intelligence Tell Time? 2018
• Synthetic Intelligence and the Divine 2018
• Will Synthetic Intelligence Pass a Mark Test 2018
• Is Synthetic Intelligence a Person? 2018
• How Can We Communicate with Synthetic Intelligence? 2018
• Does Synthetic Intelligence have an Embodiment Problem? 2018
• What Will Synthetic Intelligence Be Made Of? 2018
• Why is an Indistinguishable Synthetic Consciousness Bad? 2018
• Can We Distinguish Between Types of Consciousness? 2018
• What is the Difference Between Intelligence and Consciousness? 2018
• Can We Trust Synthetic Intelligence? 2018
• Will the Turing Test Detect Synthetic Intelligence? 2018
• Will Synthetic Intelligence have Agency? 2018
• What is Intelligence? 2018
• Fuzzy Sets 2018
• What is Synthetic Intelligence? 2018
• Magic Squares 2018