(misc scifi nanostories.) do you think we're friends outside the simulation? Read more 25 Nov 2025 - 3 minute read
Just Josh a wobsite about nerd things
The Intelligence Age will test every system we rely on---from markets and institutions to our understanding of purpose and meaning. In this talk we explore how AI might accelerate progress, destabilize long-standing equilibria, and open questions that demand new scholarship and imagination. Read more 05 Oct 2025 - 2 minute read
Erase it all / I've hit a wall / My result's minor! Read more 06 Aug 2023 - 1 minute read
(A sci-fi story, originally published on Twitter.) Listen carefully, because you’re about to mess this up for all of us. You were right: this is a sim. Everything you know and love is an approximate solution to a set of interesting hypothetical field equations. I built it all, and I’m you, one l... Read more 09 Mar 2023 - 4 minute read
The date is April 16, 2026, and unsurprisingly the media still does not know how to report on science. Read more 03 Mar 2023 - 2 minute read
(A poem.) Someday, when you can fly... Read more 06 Sep 2022 - 2 minute read
An angle into fundamental debates on AGI safety, where I try to distill two opposing views, rarely articulated explicitly, that I see at the heart of many intense debates. View 1: the impact of AGI is like chaos theory. View 2: the impact of AGI is like stat mech. View 1: The long-term future of... Read more 21 Jan 2022 - 2 minute read
(A sci-fi story, originally published on Twitter.) I didn’t make the other me all at once, or even on purpose. I just did what everyone was doing. But in the end, there it was: 150 terabytes, sometimes half an exaflop, a stranger in a cloud who knew me better than I knew myself. It happened so ... Read more 21 Apr 2020 - 7 minute read
(A sci-fi story, originally published on Twitter.) The early days of the Blink (Brain-Link) were surreal in ways I can barely remember. In the beginning it was just a bunch of us hackers, because it was too weird for anyone else to want to touch. Getting the plug installed felt sketchy, even th... Read more 10 Apr 2020 - 2 minute read