What we know of ourselves in a scientific age — and what we don’t
How to see clearly what lies ahead
Why rationalists can’t answer the doomers or the boomers
“Language models are just glorified autocomplete” has been the critics’ refrain — but reinforcement learning is proving them wrong. New breakthroughs could follow.
Why modern man yearns to be replaced, fantasizes of being the one to do it, and how we can stay human instead
LLMs are giving us a billion ripoffs of what we already are at a moment when we yearn for something new.