Humanity has never suffered from a shortage of questions. We have suffered from a shortage of answers, and perhaps even more from a shortage of ways to search for them deeply enough. Some problems survive for decades because they are not simply difficult. They sit at the edge of what human cognition, available computation, experimental capacity, money and time can reasonably explore. Better energy storage. … Continue reading The Price of an (new) Answer
I think the most interesting thing about space is that most of us are looking at it the wrong way. Yeap. For as long as I can remember, space has occupied a special place in my imagination. Not because I was an expert. I wasn’t. But like millions of people, I was fascinated by the same enduring questions: stars, distant planets, the possibility of alien … Continue reading The Future of Space Isn’t Exploration
… Apparently so. For those who remember, in 2017, Sophia walked into the future wearing a humanoid face and carrying a Saudi passport. Was that the absurdity or was it also the point? When I wrote about Sophia becoming a Saudi citizen, the obvious question was not whether the robot was truly intelligent. It was whether we understood what we had just symbolically done. If … Continue reading The Singularity Needs a Legal Address?
When photography first appeared, painters didn’t celebrate. They panicked. Suddenly, a machine could capture reality with a precision no human hand could match. No need to master anatomy for years, no need to understand light through endless trial and error, no need to mix pigments until your fingers carried the memory of color. A camera could do in seconds what took painters decades to approximate. … Continue reading What is Art?
… It Stops Being Magic and Starts Being Power It reads like a minor corporate update, the kind of post that floats through LinkedIn and disappears by lunch. ElevenLabs announces that its AI voice agents can now be insured. A certification, AIUC-1, validates safety, reliability, and security. Five thousand adversarial simulations. Enterprise readiness. Faster deployment. The language is procedural, almost dull. And yet, this is … Continue reading When AI Becomes Insurable…
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