Rich Washburn

AI may be the greatest metacognitive training wheel humanity has ever accidentally invented. There is something deeply unfair about awareness. You spend your life learning things, connecting things, trying to understand how the world works, and eventually your reward is discovering how much shit you don't understand. Then you get a little better at thinking and discover something worse: you don't completely understand how you're doing the thinking either. Metacognition is a bitch. Friedrich...

Somehow the company building artificial general intelligence has also become Silicon Valley's longest-running soap opera. I started looking into the latest round of executive departures at OpenAI because I had a very simple question: is Sam Altman in trouble again? Which is already a ridiculous sentence. Again? How many technology companies require that qualifier? But that's OpenAI. Every time I think we're finally going to be allowed to just talk about the actual artificial intelligence,...

Unless you're a teenager blogging about your goldfish, we really need to have a talk. This one is Andy's fault. My longtime friend Andy sent me an article this morning about another massive WordPress vulnerability with a note that essentially said: I know how much you love WordPress. Andy knows. He has personally been on the receiving end of my WordPress rant for years. A long time ago, before anybody was seriously talking about AI building entire websites for you, Andy was considering...