Secular Incrementalism Modern life often defaults to a “passive nihilism”—the quiet assumption that if there is no God and no absolute meaning handed down to us, we are free to invent our own (Existentialism). Often, to survive this cold reality—as inventing one’s own meaning in life involves a lot of pressure—we unassertively devise meaning by
The current hype surrounding general-purpose humanoid robots entirely dismisses a fundamental engineering reality: the power density problem. Power density, which is the amount of energy that can be stored per unit of weight (or volume) in a battery, is woefully inadequate to run the kind of powerful, modern AI required for general-purpose tasks. A robot
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Sometimes, when I’m in public, I look around at all of the random people I don’t know, and I truly celebrate our existence. I take a second to appreciate us. Us! We are literally amazing. We’re all obviously the outcome of 330,000 years of modern human brains doing the impossible to give us existence. And,
