Why did 64 members of Israel’s Knesset just vote to change how the Israeli government operates, to give the Prime Minister and his cabinet nearly unchecked power as in autocratic regimes—even as the entire opposition […]
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From left: Ruizhe, Daniel, me, Jiahui, William This summer, I’m delighted to report, we’ve had four (!) students complete their PhDs in computer science through UT Austin’s Quantum Information Center: Dr. Ruizhe Zhang, student of […]
Yesterday James Knight did a fun interview with me for his “Philosophical Muser” podcast about Aumann’s agreement theorem and human disagreements more generally. It’s already on YouTube here for those who would like to listen. […]
This is my first post in well over a month. The obvious excuse is that I’ve been on a monthlong family world tour, which took me first to the Bay Area, then NYC, then Israel, […]
When I was a teenager, I enjoyed reading Hyperspace, an early popularization of string theory by the theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. I’m sure I’d have plenty of criticisms if I reread it today, but at […]
[Like everything else on this blog—but perhaps even more so—this post represents my personal views, not those of UT Austin or OpenAI] Since 2015, depressed, isolated, romantically unsuccessful nerdy young guys have regularly been emailing […]
That’s all. No real post this morning, just an hour-long podcast on YouTube featuring two decades-long veterans of the nerd blogosphere, Robin Hanson and yours truly, talking about AI, trying to articulate various possibilities outside […]
I blogged a few weeks ago about SB 18, a bill that would end tenure at Texas public universities, including UT Austin and Texas A&M. The bad news is that SB 18 passed the Texas […]
The major developments in human history are always steeped in dark ironies. Yes, that’s my Law of Dark Irony, the whole thing. I don’t know why it’s true, but it certainly seems to be. Taking […]
Artificial intelligence has made incredible progress in the last decade, but in one crucial aspect, it still lags behind the theoretical computer science of the 1990s: namely, there is no essay describing five potential worlds […]
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