Archive - The Dance

The First-Ever Human Economy?

How AI Labor and Human Labor Could Work Together.

Jun 30 •

May 2024

On Builders & Destroyers

And what they have to do with AI.

May 31 •

Is GitHub's CEO sugarcoating a bad pill for developers?

GitHub's newly announced Copilot Workspace looks like an incredible AI achievement. But what's the real cost to developers?

May 28 •

On Being Redundant

For humans who overly identify with their work, the road ahead is tough.

May 24 •

January 2019

Steve Jobs would not approve of how we use the iPhone.

From the New York Times: “Smartphones are our constant companions. For many of us, their glowing screens are a ubiquitous presence, drawing us in with…

Jan 26, 2019 •

Is the Horror of Autonomous Weapons Already Here?

Another sample from my upcoming thesis on AI Safety and Buddhism: Beyond all those, there is the prospect of an AI arms race, which is already in the…

Jan 3, 2019 •

December 2018

AI Alignment as a Choice Between Heaven & Hell

Another snippet from my thesis: To full grasp what is at stake, it is perhaps worth contemplating the vast space of possible outcomes when it comes to…

Dec 31, 2018 •

On Enlightened AI

A sample from the final chapter of my upcoming thesis on Buddhism and AI Safety: In a sense, our future AI creations may very well be lucky. Being the…

Dec 24, 2018 •

October 2018

Reality is Connections

From my masters thesis in progress: We’ve already seen that the Connectionist approach in Cognitive Science views knowledge as in some way made of…

Oct 9, 2018 •

June 2018

This Carbon Atom is Mine, and This is Yours

Interesting explanation of anattā (Not Self) from Mori Masahiro’s The Buddha in the Robot: When we are born into this world, we do seem to have been…

Jun 5, 2018 •

May 2018

AI & Emergent Selfhood

A taste from the intro to my M.A. thesis

May 22, 2018 •

February 2018

The Highest Form of Engagement

If one were in a simplistic mindset, one could look at the Facebook feed algorithm as the first case of AI gone rogue. This machine-learning algorithm…

Feb 27, 2018 •

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