What I Learned Watching Wisconsin Count Its Votes
Democracy is complicated. Counting the votes is surprisingly meticulous.
Saved by the Camera
How a Driver’s Tesla Exposed Police Fabrications and a Vindictive Prosecution
Talking Machines and the Illusion of Consciousness
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ELIZA
Power, and the Power to Know
What Global Energy Monitor’s latest report tells us about our future
The Cow Chips Fall Where They May
It’s a Wisconsin tradition, and I was pooped at the end.
Capitalism, Schmapitalism
What if “capitalism” doesn’t actually exist?
The Ghost in the Geranium
Decoding Facebook’s AI Empathy Farms
No Language Model Will Ever Serve a Tennis Ball
Some people are predicting the imminent arrival of “artificial general intelligence.” I’m skeptical, because they haven’t defined what that means.
The Case of the Synthetic Starlet
Rhea Seehorn reached out to thank me, and for a brief, flattered moment I wanted to believe it. Welcome to the age of scalable intimacy.
I Came, I Saw, I Walked Uphill
I missed my target time, walked some hills, got beaten by Joe from Madison, and still somehow won my age division.
Machines Are Eating My Brain, and I Think I Like It
The real danger of AI is not that it gets things wrong, but that it tempts us to stop thinking for ourselves.
Intelligence, Consciousness and Language
The category errors we keep making about artificial intelligence
The Last Thin Man
In the land where cheeseburgers reign supreme, I fight a never-ending battle of the bulge.
Human, All Too Human
We’ve found the problem with artificial intelligence, and it is us.
The Worse-Is-Better Theory of History
No one ever went broke telling people that the world is going to hell.
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