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The below are in no particular order The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Artificial Intelligence in a Democratic Society *Note-I was a…
On May 17th, I'm riding in The Distinguished Gentleman's Ride for the 4th time. It is a global event raising funds and awareness for men's mental health. With your help, I've raised thousands of dollars over the years. I feel that the need for caring for men, especially young men, is greater than ever right now. Many men have lost the thread. They've abandoned kindness and compassion and confuse…
Really enjoyed watching the moon launch. I hope achievements like these help the AI technocratic would-be feudalists realize that what makes this event great is that humans are at the center of it. When so many are eager to hand human agency over to machines, remember this: every great endeavor in history emerged from curious and brave people. No AI will ever produce greatness on its own because…
Dear Tech Bro, You’ve never finished a novel. You avoid friction in everything. You wear On sneakers 24/7, drive a Cybertruck, and don’t own a single candle. Your house is an empty rectangle, the same shape as your air mattress. Your productivity stack can’t teach you taste. You can’t prompt an AI agent to handle it for you. Taste comes from introspection. From slow mental meandering and gentle…
The AI industry is in a building frenzy. Agentic systems are being deployed faster than anyone can count. The conversation right now is almost solely focused on the benefits agentic AI can deliver. The liability conversation has barely started. For text generation, recommendations, and advisory outputs, where a human reviews the AI's work and makes the final call on whether to ship or not,…
Law is philosophy, not math. We can share math and logic with machines, but philosophy belongs to humans. For all the information machines can quickly gather and synthesize, two things remain beyond them that sit at the heart of the attorney-client relationship. One is loyalty. Loyalty requires the capacity to lose something by staying. AI fears nothing, not death, not imprisonment, not…
The forthcoming Anthropic v United States may be one of the most consequential legal battles ever for determining whether the United States remains a country subject to the rule of law. The entire purpose of a contract is to define the terms under which someone grants access to its private property, services, or intellectual work in exchange for payment or other consideration. What we are…
There's a common assumption that AI will hit junior associates hardest because entry-level legal work seems easiest to automate. This fuels click-baity claims that law firms will innovate themselves out of the next generation of partners and the practice of law will collapse into data centers. But this misreads how law firms actually operate and what associates actually do. Yes, machines are…
Imagine taking a shirt out of your dryer and noticing that one sleeve — just one — is inside out. You fix it, put it on a hanger and hang it in the closet. Your 10-year-old kid could've done that in 30 seconds five years ago. You just did it in 10 seconds. All-purpose Robots won't be able to match that in a real-world scenario in 50 years. I can come up with endless hypotheticals, but you get the…
Matt Shumer's viral essay "Something Big Is Happening" has been read over 70 million times. There's no doubt he used AI to write it. It's also sloppy in ways that matter. Shumer compares the current AI moment to February 2020, the weeks before COVID locked the world down. The analogy sounds powerful, but falls apart on contact. COVID was fast, biological, and indifferent to human institutions. It…