The disaster you don’t know can happen
World is scarier the more you know.
Self-care
Fuel for thought
Our brains are hungry. “Although the brain represents just 2 per cent of body weight, it consumes about 20 per cent of our energy at rest. Every perception, memory, emotion and idea is metabolically expensive. Thought itself is an energy-hungry… Read More »Fuel for thought
Who will pay for pensions?
And is investing a solution?
P(doom)
Are any adults left in charge?
Resisting Change
Sometimes there does not need to be a reason.
The “Passive Income” trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
Business should not just be about making money. “Jade Roller Guy has become my go-to example of something that went drastically, terribly wrong with how a whole generation of would-be entrepreneurs thought about work and money. A specific ideology –… Read More »The “Passive Income” trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
Stealing 10k from a locked phone
Why isn’t it more widely exploited?
The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Safety
LLMs do not have conscience. “First, ML models are a giant pile of linear algebra. Unlike human brains, which are biologically predisposed to acquire prosocial behavior, there is nothing intrinsic in the mathematics or hardware that ensures models are nice.”… Read More »The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Safety
Hazardous States and Accidents
I will start using this more. At home and work. “One of my children loves playing around cliffs and rocks. Initially he was very keen on promising me that he wouldn’t fall down. I explained the difference between accidents and… Read More »Hazardous States and Accidents
Engineering Ethic and Honor
Here is a pledge I gave when graduating from my alma mater “We, the graduates of engineering studies at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, ‘pledge’ that we will practice our profession as engineers in accordance with the principles… Read More »Engineering Ethic and Honor