The Last Instrumental Century
On the possibility — and the possible forms — of a human future
Tag
cognition
4 texts across all collections.
The Possibility of Superintelligence and the Void of Alignment
Nothing known prevents a superintelligence from existing; the technical path and the timeline are opaque; and the alignment problem is open while institutions are inadequate. An argument for cautious possibilism, neither doomerism nor complacency.
Dropping the Purism: What Language Models Have Conquered, What Still Eludes Them, and Why General Intelligence Is a Continent No Species — Biological or Digital — Has Fully Explored
Linguistic competence in language models is a genuine achievement of intelligence, but only one region of a multidimensional topography that crows, chimpanzees and octopuses explore in ways LLMs cannot: action, grounding, interaction, development.
AI Should Learn Like Children
A Hypothesis on Artificial Intelligence, Child Cognitive Development, and the Limits of the Statistical Mind
