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Occasional notes on science, technology, health, and the ideas that connect them.
Can a Machine Discover a World from Scratch?
A proposed experiment asks whether AI can invent a science of an unfamiliar world, and what that would tell us about consciousness.
Published6 minute readWhat Athens Made Possible
A walk through the Ancient Agora raised a larger question: what conditions allow an unusual amount of human potential to become consequential at once?
Published9 minute readA place for working notes
A placeholder article for the first version of this writing section.
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