The Übermensch and the Last Human
I can still feel the tiny jolt of relief that used to arrive when the red squiggle under a word in Microsoft Office disappeared.
It’s...
Determinism, AI, and the Fate of Humanity
I’ve caught myself doing it without thinking: reaching for the phone and letting it tell me what the next move should be.
Not in a...
The Machine in the Ghost
I keep circling back to a thought experiment that refuses to stay in the past. It starts with Pierre-Simon Laplace, an 18th-century French scientist,...






