Not a story but fifty-three: “Viral Fixpoint – The Adversarial Metanoia archives (2019-2020)”
I’ve put together most of the stories published on Adversarial Metanoia during 2019-2020 in a single pdf file. Viral Fixpoint…
New short story: “Revelation Engineering”
None of the machine-makers prayed to the would-be gods they trained. Some of them wouldn’t worship anything but themselves and…
Quick link: When it comes to causal knowledge, every little bit (of lowered entropy) helps
The paper: Not Causal or Descriptive But Some Secret, Other Thing: Entropy as a Criterion for Causal Learning What it…
New short story: “Offerings”
When you were twelve years old you had a Revelation: Everything looks at you with a million eyes, weighs you…
And now for something different: architecture and the Metaverse
I had the privilege of collaborating with Micaela Mantegna on The Anti-Metaverse: Multispace and the Intersections of Reality, an article…
Quick link: First data points on the impact of ChatGPT on employment
The paper: The Short-Term Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Employment: Evidence from an Online Labor Market What they did:…
Using protein language models to accelerate their artificial evolution works; the interesting part is why.
The Nature paper Efficient evolution of human antibodies from general protein language models has already made the rounds, and deservingly…
Quick link: Knowing what your algorithm thinks it knows
The paper: What’s in a Prior? Learned Proximal Networks for Inverse Problems. What it does: This will be clearer with…
AI hiring filters don’t optimize what you think they do
Let’s start with a General Theory of Hiring Filters. Like any filtering algorithm, the output of whatever AI you use…
New short story: “Truth-seeking Sessions”
The bioengineer cleared his throat, looked at nowhere, and said “I’m having nightmares again.” The therapist nodded. “Still dreaming of…