Life in the Singularity

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I Like Big Brains
Of all the bets ever placed in the history of this planet, the wager on a creature like Homo sapiens was the longest of long shots.
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Twin Singularities: Bitcoin & AI
It all starts, as these things so often do, with a handful of nerds getting unreasonably excited about something no one else understands.
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Reflections from a Self-Evolving World
In the first part of this series, I laid out a blueprint for a grand plan.
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The Normalcy Fraud
There’s a lie, or at least a spectacular misdirection, that we all learn sometime between middle school math and our first soul-crushing corporate…
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June 2025

We Made A Luck Machine
The Convexity of Genius
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We Keep Reinforcing Reinforcement Learning
You have to start in the dark.
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Self-Improving LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
AI Research Paper Breakdown Deep Dive - #9
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How Technology is Building a Better, Wealthier World
There are voices, often the loudest in the room, that paint a grim picture of our technological age.
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AI Research - May 2025
BREAKING NEWS: I got quoted by Naval on X!
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The Dawn of the Neo-Generalist
Our Journey into Specialization and Back Again
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May 2025

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