The Intelligence Mirage: Building the Scaffolding of AGI

Why Deep Learning is a Detour, Not the Destination Part 1: The Modern Egyptian Why we are building the Pyramids of Intelligence without understanding the Physics. There is a dirty secret at the heart of the current AI boom: the people building the models don’t actually know how they work. If you ask a researcher at a frontier lab why adding more GPUs and more data makes a model smarter, they will point you to “Scaling Laws.” These are charts that show a perfect, predictable l

Beyond Scale: The 2025 Landscape of Deutsch-Style AGI Efforts

Why Deutsch Matters David Deutsch argues that true progress—scientific, technological, even moral—comes from explanatory knowledge :...

What is Life?

This attached file is six minute presentation I gave back in 2011, regarding the intriguing connections between the 2nd law of...

Conjectures on Consciousness

Consciousness is a tricky subject, and most discussions go off track early on due to differing definitions of what consciousness is. For...

AI Doomerism: A Self Fulfilling Prophecy

AI doomerism discussions are comprised of irrational ideas that play on our fears and lead to support for regulations, and appeals to...

A Thousand Brains?

Jeff Hawkins book, A Thousand Brains, analyzes our latest understanding of the architecture of the brain and attempts to outline a...