“If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

Cognition, Culture, and Computation

  • Asimov's Three Laws: The Paradox of Obedience and Agency in Advanced AI Systems

    Tech companies with a profit oriented mindset will be more inclined to want sole control over advanced AI systems, compared to integration of various stakeholders via AI governance. But, it does not make theoretical sense for an AI to be aligned in relation to its creators but be misaligned in relation to the rest of society/stakeholders, as misalignment may reverberate across the board rather than restricting itself to one area.

  • AI and Psychosis: Power Dynamics Between Cognitively Vulnerable Sources and the Media

    “If the government is backed up on responding adequately to AI developments—and, as a side effect, cannot be expected to adequately address psychosis arising from AI and user interaction; if medicine is moving slowly; if technology companies are too opaque for the public to understand what they are doing; and if the media have legal priorities that may or may not align with your own, try to look toward the people in your life whom you have a history of trusting for support.”

  • Superalignment: Cultural Logics as Safety Parameters

    How does the cultural logic embedded in a researcher’s or author's cognition limit and dictate what computational ethical frameworks they have the capacity to develop?

  • Notes on Metamodernism: The Cultural Lineage of My Cognition

    And as I sit with the cultural lineage of my cognition – my thoughts – I am reminded that schizophrenia is a logic that is part of the human design...an initiation of becoming that is very much human. And maybe even machine.