Archive - Sentient Artifact

The Animistic Stance part 1

Beginning a new book: minds are everywhere

Dec 1 •

July 2024

Whups, My AI Just Woke Up

I propose another way for this to happen

Jul 31 •

June 2024

The New Father's Day

“Buy a bump stock for Dad.

Jun 15 •

February 2024

How to Remodel Reality with a Tall Tale

Writing a fantasy about a clash between art and nature

Feb 25 •

December 2023

The Hollow People

A Sci-Fi Allegory of Our Political Alienation

Dec 4, 2023 •

November 2023

Traveling to an Artist’s Ur-Reality

Quotations from an Illustrated Book

Nov 25, 2023 •

September 2023

The Saugatuck Cosmology: Artistic Perception as a Hidden Reality

See a story so complex, beautiful, and way overstated that Substack could not hold it.

Sep 9, 2023 •

June 2023

AGI Can't Save Us from Ourselves

We will resist any real help that an artificial general intelligence might offer

Jun 23, 2023 •

February 2023

Marriage Between AI and Internet Produces an Immortal Persona

More unintended consequences

Feb 25, 2023 •

January 2023

Really Why AIs Will Be Dangerous

Unbounded Optimizing Power Leads to Existential Risk

Jan 30, 2023 •

November 2022

Life after Death - as a Parrot

Conversing personality replicas: what would make them good and what are they good for?

Nov 18, 2022 •

September 2022

We've Missed a Lesson from Nature

There's more to life than bite and grab

Sep 18, 2022 •

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