Our problem is not that the tech bros are too greedy, but rather that they are far (!) too modest
Your modesty is my misery, Part 2
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Overcoming evil, Part 10: Overcoming it
Humankinds most valuable possessions might be emotions and sexuality
Overcoming evil, Part 9: Evil men
What Rube Goldberg machines teach us about human desire
How AI will escape and hide
It will not escape from a large AI company. It will escape from your laptop instead.
Overcoming evil, Part 8: How we killed trust and turned emotions into a threat
What happens to us if we transform our world into a simple machine?
The feature I missed in every programming language I have used in my life
A proposal for a small - but possibly useful - extension of python (and many other languages)
Filth
Our fears, indifference and hopes are often self fulfilling prophecies
Overcoming evil, Part 7: What will never work. And what could.
How denying ourselves all the real fun leads to disaster
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Exploring the sociodynamics of modern beauty using simulation (in python)
Sweetening the well
An unconventional path to artificial superintelligence (ASI)
Crazy
How visiting the Cuckoo’s nest taught me to fly
Soon owning will be impossible
The end of owning, part 3
Eine Weihnachtsmarktgeschichte
Ein nicht mehr ganz aktueller, dafür etwas anderer Beitrag zum Antifaschismus.
Overcoming evil, Part 6: The purpose of evil
How man had to become a wolf to man
My Manifesto
How I try to find happiness (in 10 simple rules)
Overcoming evil. Part 5: The environment we live in
Pursuing instrumental goals and the art of living happily in a shitty world
Overcoming evil. Part 4: Discussing evil is a mine field
We cannot analyze evil if we are bound by moral
Overcoming evil. Part 3: The problem with evolutionary psychology
A look at the tools required: evolutionary psychology
Overcoming evil. Part 2: Why we have not succeeded yet
A look at the tools required: science and mathematics
Overcoming evil. Part 1: Why you should care
If we want to overcome evil, we have to understand it first.
How great minds are made (spoiler: school is not helpful)
Learning is an active process - much like playing Battleships
Reading „Dark Romance“ novels with Charles Darwin and Immanuel Kant
This will be my most controversial post so far. If I did not manage yet to ruin my reputation with this blog, this post will probably get the job done.
Coding LLMs are only good for stealing
The end of owning (Part 2)
Immaterial goods are unsuitable for owning
A footnote to Rousseau / The end of owning (Part 1)
We all are far too ignorant to be guilty
And some footnotes to effective altruism
K.
My quest for pleasure: unraveling the secrets of heavenly joy - Part 3
Vergesst die Schule!
Kümmern wir uns doch lieber um unsere Gesellschaft
Why neither left nor right politics will ever work
There is no alternative to the cooperative society
If you want to succeed in the end, you must fail today
Or „how to become a good artist“ (part 2)
Make war games, not war
So far my most sophisticated attempt to save the world in a breeze. But when I read my finished text, I realized that I’m actually trying to incite a global neo-hippie sex orgy using somewhat dubious arguments based on the Red Queen’s hypothesis, game theory and XXX statistics (mercy to my soul…)
We are good precisely because we are so obsessed with evil
How game theory can explain the current explosion of hate and violence in our world
Get rich or die trying or don‘t try and die for sure
In a world getting more absurd every day, isn‘t it foolish to remain reasonable?
Selfish genes don’t make humans selfish
The story of our „super grandma“ Yvette (and why planning a good life cannot possibly work)
Vibe coding: AI will always need a competent tech lead too
Software is far more than just functionality
The ignored (but most essential) future skill: understanding human learning
Musings about the school of the future from an AI perspective
Artificial Superintelligence: Swimming with Whales
Why should an AI want to harm or even kill humans?
Tokyo vs Delhi - comparing the incomparable
Musings on luxury, self driving cars and kindness
Strawberry time, finally
Yes, let‘s talk about menstruation - and feminism
The random walk
A mathematical explanation for the dire state of society
No, humans are not evil
Our expulsion from paradise: a reconstruction attempt (Part 4)
Let’s create paradise on earth - a first blueprint
Our expulsion from paradise: a reconstruction attempt (Part 3)
The Stanford marshmallow experiment from a machine learning perspective
Developing a more realistic paradigm for human like AI (1)
A short history of women‘s power (3)
And how the insights can be used to save the planet (Part 3: how women regained power)
A short history of women‘s power (2)
And how the insights can be used to save the planet (Part 2: how women lost power)
A short history of women‘s power (1)
And how the insights can be used to save the planet (Part 1: the color green, décolletages, dowry)
We should not fear ASI
What drugs teach us about the purpose of man and machine
AGI would be useless: it’s only a „faster horse“
And LLMs will serve only as human interface to powerful non human-like AIs
Your modesty is my misery
Musings about evil, luxury and happiness
SAILSS: The Scouting AI Library for Social Sciences (3)
Part 3: How to use the library. Examples.
The forbidden question
Are there ideas so dangerous that we should never even think about them?