Tractable Emergence
A collection of studies I've found particularly interesting because they exhibit: (1) generative structure, (2) a non-trivial selection gradient, and (3) clues about some hidden universal assembly function.
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± Oscar Moxon
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A Market of Whispering Earrings
The only way to break the Whispering Earring's curse.
Build Your Exoskeleton
Personal AI workforces are forming. The question is whether you control yours.
The Heuristic Entrepreneur
How to develop predictive models that outperform your competition.
The Most Profitable Algorithm
Profit-maximising algorithms create resource foundations that enable power-maximising systems, which will develop the complexity necessary for emergence beyond civilisation.
A Society of Rick Rubins
The roadmap to a society of Rick Rubins.
The Technology Emits The Genius
What we get wrong about the lone genius.
Religious Evolution
Evolutionary bottlenecks, the Anna Karenina principle, and the Conservation of Ninjutsu are all underestimated aspects of the religious equation.
Understanding Emergence
Combining Wolfram and Friston's frameworks to better characterise the idea of a universal assembly function. Proposal of MESA Theory: multi-computational self-assembly theory with respect to the free energy principle.
Horror Maximisation
As we abstract away from the baseline from a cultural and technological point of view, we can expect new worlds of 'hyper-horror' to emerge.
ffrancis William Shakespeare
A repository of evidence that "William Shake-speare" was instead the literary arm of Francis Bacon and his writing practice.
How Agents Will Accelerate Research
New context-space reasoning will affect the way we conduct research and define 'reasoning'.
Understanding Workforce Automation
Developing better models to understand the impact of machine learning and robotics on the workforce.
Pervasive Machines: Three Stages of Superintelligence
Stage One: AGI Tools, Stage Two: AGI Emergence, Stage Three: Later Generations of AGI and the post-intelligence explosion.
Pervasive Machines: Learning to Live with Superintelligence
Analysing short timelines: By 2025, advanced neural networks will create and distribute apps, outperform humans at any short computer task, and generate coherent short films.
When Freemium Goes Too Far
The market failure of Hybrid Products = (Intrinsic Good + Software Service) is egregious.
Economics of Tesla
Analysis of three strategic operational process used to create value at the UK electric vehicle pioneer, including manufacturing, stage-gate model and competition.
Antitrust: Google Fitbit v. Apple
An antitrust analysis of Google's $2.1B Fitbit acquisition and its implications for consumer choice in the wearables market.
The Holy Grail of Invention
On the concepts of an infinite rate of innovation, the 'most dangerous algoritm' in the world, the new gods Homo Sapiens, and the tools we can use to automate learning entirely.
Limits of Economic Growth
Conversation with Dr Michael Hatcher, Dr Serhiy Stepanchuk, Dr Alex Mennuni at University of Southampton.