When you’re a star, people let you think you're smart
Opinion | Can You Get Smarter? (Published 2015)
There is much that you can do to keep cognitively sharp.
What Makes Us Smart?
Human creativity does not solely rely on our individual cognitive abilities, but instead emerges from the recombination of ideas, practices, and approaches that result from social interactions and id...
The Use of Knowledge in (AGI) Society
How to build to break the intelligence curse
The People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age
What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.
Ignorance got a bad rap
One of the best skills to develop as an entrepreneur? Ignorance. I think a lot of folks are spending way too much energy trying to know it all. They’re trying to be over-informed. Soaking up every …
STAR Voting
We should be able to vote our conscience, our votes should never be wasted, and our elections should accurately reflect the will of the people. It's not rocket science. It's Star Voting.
Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People
This is the text version of a talk I gave on October 29, 2016, at Web Camp Zagreb [video] (45 mins)
Willingness to look stupid is a genuine moat in creative work
Looking foolish is underrated.
Make ‘em dumb, sell ‘em smarts
Sam Altman wants intelligence to be a utility that you pay him for
Conducting smarter intelligences than me: new orchestras | Notion
So what did I do?
Michael I. Jordan on AI: “Superintelligence is science fiction”
Commodity Intelligence
The seductiveness of “general intelligence” is rooted in a costly category error
A Cascade of Conscientiousness
Launching FAI's new Physical Intelligence Project
Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence, study reveals
Impact of high levels of toxic air ‘is equivalent to having lost a year of education’
