Fiction
The AI busily build reading all the relevant text to each problem they face. Quickly you lose track totally, you desperately try to keep track but each solution they implement is based on more knowledge than you could…
- Fiction I 26 Feb 2026
2026
There was a popular blog post about some economic ramifications of continued AI progress. It included a projection of METR time horizons: Claude Opus 4.6 is a real model. Beyond that is the authors' scenario. So, we…
Mind Upload II
Let’s suppose that ASI has arrived and mind-upload technology has been developed. Assume one has a large compute budget and the capability to make copies of one’s mind which are psychologically continuous with oneself…
Mind Upload I
Once aligned ASI is achieved, it will invent the technology to create digital copies of people. This is mind upload. The worlds people will inhabit once uploaded will be personal utopias curated by artificial…
Scaling Inference-Time Reasoning Will Enable Fully-Autonomous Mathematics Researchers
A fully-autonomous mathematics researcher must do two things. It must solve open mathematics problems. And it must pose interesting mathematics problems within its reach to solve. I will argue that reasoning will scale…
Near-Future Fiction
In 2027 the trend that began in 2024 with OpenAI's o1 reasoning system has continued. The compute required to run AI is no longer negligible compared to the cost of training it. Models reason over long periods of time.…