All posts tagged: ai

Bubbles and Balloons

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Bubbles always pop. Balloons sometimes do: but they often kind of… sigh. Technically, that’s the difference: a bubble exists until it doesn’t, while a balloon can spend a long time in the in‑between—less pressure than before, but still very much there. In markets, a bubble is the thing you tell your grandkids about. A balloon is the thing you might forget happened until you pull up a chart. 2021 to 2022, I think, was a […]

On Higher Powers

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I sat down with a group of students and recent graduates from Finland a few months back, and one of them asked me: “I am very concerned about AI alignment. It feels like a superintelligent superpower ruling over humanity is not being taken seriously enough. Why isn’t society taking it seriously, and how do you think we should approach it?” It took me a second to think about the first part of that question, which […]