Writing
Essays
Deep dives into the science and philosophy of the human mind, intelligence, and cognitive architecture.
Sentience, Agency, and the Future of Human Ingenuity
AI does not pose an existential threat to humans, and this is a hill I will live on. Sorry to disappoint doomers, but we aren't going to see the world plunged into chaos by machines. For that to happen -- the kind of chaos seen in the Terminator movies -- AI will need to have will and sentience. This is not to be confused with what it already has: agency.
An Inquiry into The Rationality of Thought
Axioms are self evident truths; truths that are so fundamental to the very nature of a concept that they can only be described as the principle that governs the existence of said concept. This essay makes a principle based argument for the self evident nature of axioms and posits a mental model that every human being can potentially adopt to foster the development of a world in which thoughts are principle driven, bias neutral, and positively impactful.