the future has a surprisingly repetitive past
An intellectual map of AI and human agency, built to expose useful connections, disagreements, and things we did not know to request.
Nine works tracing AI from machine intuition to systems that increasingly act on our behalf.
When a system can pursue an outcome, where should human judgment remain?
Enter the collection →conversations selected for the questions they test and cool logo bro on the microphone
Competing arguments about where AI may be going.
Nine long conversations testing what current systems lack, how quickly they may improve, what constrains them, and what could go wrong.
A decade of hard engineeringAndrej Karpathy
Near the end of the exponentialDario Amodei
Which claims survive when timelines, mechanisms, and consequences are argued in the same room?
Open this shelf →Technology cross-examined.
Five selections making the adversarial economic, labor, product, and infrastructure case against the generative-AI boom.
A useful corrective to the proposition that putting ‘AI’ in front of an expenditure automatically makes the expenditure wise.
Which AI claims survive a hostile reading of the economics and incentives underneath them?
Open this shelf →Reality investigated.
Five investigations that follow AI out of the cloud and into cars, companies, power grids, communities, and ordinary human judgment.
Observed in the wildTechnology is much easier to understand once somebody goes outside and looks at what it's doing.
What changes when machine intelligence leaves the demo and encounters the rest of the world?
Open this shelf →Intelligent people given enough time to become ridiculous.
Five conversations in which dryness, surrealism, overthinking, and active sabotage reveal how friendship might actually work.
When does refusing the premise become the best way to join the joke?
Open this shelf →Reality has already failed QA.
The show is the recommendation: four QI researchers bring their favorite bizarre facts from the week and discover what happens when none of them stay put.
Technology returned to history.
Eleven conversations about intelligence, probability, work, power, crisis, and the futures earlier generations left lying around.
Observed in the wildThe tech bros are new, but the ambitions are ancient.
What becomes visible when technology is returned to history?
Open this shelf →A short shelf is not an apology. It is evidence that somebody said no.
What should humans choose not to delegate, even when machines can do it better?
IntelligenceWhat do machines know, and what are we projecting onto them?
WorkWhen tasks change hands, what happens to skill, dignity, and bargaining power?
PowerWho gets to decide what these systems optimize, and who must live with the answer?
Safety & GovernanceHow do principles acquire consequences?
Science & DiscoveryCan machines help us find what nobody thought to look for?
Human FlourishingWhat is all this capability supposed to be for?