symmetry, broken

The Zap Test for Transformers

Is Everything a Remake?

The Wall as Unpaid Synchronization Tax

Daylight Cannot be Saved

Asymmetric Evolution

What Art is Doing

Constructive Interference

Maintaining Divergence

A Tribute to Peter Putnam

A More Perfect Union

Communication Communicating

Maintenance: the Mattering Instinct for Engineers

Joining the Conversation

The Mattering Instinct

Uncommon Knowledge

Limits of the Transformer Architecture and a QCD-like Alternative

The Transformer as Renormalization Group Flow

A Stationary Action is Stable Information

The Hard Problem as Hidden Relationality

It from Bit, Bit from It

The Synchronization Tax

Observational Entropy and Quantum Darwinism

Estimation Culture

The Causal Arrow of Altruism

Rademacher Complexity and Models of Group Competition

The Coasean Singularity in Patents

What is creativity?

Invention as Exploration

Problems with the Problem of Synchronization

Patents, Trust, and the Health of the Startup Ecosystem

Community in Silicon Valley

The Gravity of Envy

Life Choices as a High-Dimensional Optimization

Learn to Code. Go to law school.

The Prehistory of Startups

Chaotic Progress

Friends, inventors, countrymen, lend me your ears

Patents and Violence

Introducing Xena

GPT-4 Tuning for Writing Style

Synchronization and Banking