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2025 2

  1. The binding problem
  2. The binding problem

2023 4

  1. What is Heisenberg uncertainty, anyway?
  2. What is Heisenberg uncertainty, anyway?
  3. The Next button
  4. The Next button

2022 6

  1. How do we know anything?
  2. How do we know anything?
  3. Mindstate Design Labs
  4. Mindstate Design Labs
  5. Investing in Synchron
  6. Investing in Synchron

2021 8

  1. A Science corporation
  2. A Science corporation
  3. Thinking of the children
  4. Thinking of the children
  5. Cosmic games
  6. Cosmic games
  7. Do words mean anything?
  8. Do words mean anything?

2020 28

  1. What does Twitter asymptote to?
  2. What does Twitter asymptote to?
  3. What we owe to each other
  4. What we owe to each other
  5. The vanishing computer
  6. The vanishing computer
  7. What is relativity, anyway?
  8. What is relativity, anyway?
  9. Buggy technology is indistinguishable from malware
  10. Buggy technology is indistinguishable from malware
  11. What is your ideal body?
  12. What is your ideal body?
  13. The brain dreams
  14. The brain dreams
  15. Artificial intelligence will be here soon
  16. Artificial intelligence will be here soon
  17. Do we live in the same reality?
  18. Do we live in the same reality?
  19. N-of-5 medicine
  20. N-of-5 medicine
  21. How I angel invest
  22. How I angel invest
  23. We are probably not living in a simulation
  24. We are probably not living in a simulation
  25. Medical math
  26. Medical math
  27. Are you actually sick?
  28. Are you actually sick?

2019 2

  1. Physics considerations for a simulated reality
  2. Physics considerations for a simulated reality

2016 20

  1. Fast progress requires strong gradients
  2. Fast progress requires strong gradients
  3. Speed limits
  4. Speed limits
  5. Is it true?
  6. Is it true?
  7. The signaling of secrecy
  8. The signaling of secrecy
  9. The Future
  10. The Future
  11. Where is the border?
  12. Where is the border?
  13. Don't give up
  14. Don't give up
  15. Management by laziness
  16. Management by laziness
  17. Decoupling medicinal chemistry
  18. Decoupling medicinal chemistry
  19. Advice for prospective startup founders
  20. Advice for prospective startup founders

2014 4

  1. Transcriptic company culture
  2. Transcriptic company culture
  3. Avoid little leagues
  4. Avoid little leagues

2013 10

  1. Defensive code for a high reliability environment
  2. Defensive code for a high reliability environment
  3. Computer security
  4. Computer security
  5. The US banking system is insecure
  6. The US banking system is insecure
  7. Bitcoin
  8. Bitcoin
  9. Five things
  10. Five things

2011 2

  1. Frequent flyer hacks
  2. Frequent flyer hacks

2009 2

  1. The hard problem of brain-machine interfacing
  2. The hard problem of brain-machine interfacing