Human life isn't about becoming the strongest and meanest so we can beat the people we fear.
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Writing
Notes, essays, and fleeting thoughts.
Personal opinions, not conclusions — half-baked, biased, and often revised the moment I learn something new. Read them lightly; I do too.
A physics result about stacked graphene gave me a way to say something I had been circling for years: most of what I am is not in me, it is in how I line up with the people around me.
A small autonomous monitor for a home network: snapshot the state that should not drift, diff it against an accepted baseline, and let a language model decide whether the changes are explainable.
Each comforting answer to the AI question assumes intelligence produces cooperation. It doesn't. Cooperation comes from payoff structure, and right now we are building a bad one.
Nature selects for efficiency in every organism. I think intelligence is our species' particular strategy for it — the ability to judge which efficiencies are actually worth pursuing.
How I use a free local model as a delegated investigator for my AI assistant, trading wall-clock time for dollar cost — and what the research literature says about why this works.