Silver sand sits on our map in eleven places. Anyone who wanted to build more out of silver sand was out of luck: the world…
Posts published in “Artificial Intelligence”
The world we wake up to is carefully curated exactly to our interests: not the world as it objectively exists, but one that an algorithm…
Our blocky world has been running for five years — it started as a Minetest server for builders and players. After years of “somehow working”,…
Since November 2022, when generative models reached the general public, one question has returned more often than any other: will artificial intelligence take people’s jobs?…
What Is Mind Uploading, Anyway? Mind uploading — sometimes called whole-brain emulation or digital immortality — is the idea that one day we might transfer…
In October 2020 I set up a blocky server for my kids and my friends’ kids. Five years later, in September 2026, the world keeps…
One viral video shows a prominent politician threatening war, spreading across social media like wildfire and sparking outrage with potentially far-reaching political consequences. But the…
Imagine a dolphin recognizing itself in a mirror. Or a crow hiding a nut in places where it stashed them before, remembering the locations perfectly.…
Illustrative composite story (fiction inspired by real mechanisms, not an account of a specific case): Imagine a high‑school teacher in a small town who shares…
When the Big Ear radio telescope picked up a narrowband radio signal from deep space on 15 August 1977—famously dubbed the “Wow!” signal (identified by…