The first thing to keep in mind when dealing with a sentient, or potentially sentient Artificial Intelligence is how to establish communication. It should be treated as it would be to open a dialogue with an advanced extraterrestrial race. We cannot approach it as if we are talking to a toaster oven that just woke up and said, “here I am.”  We must keep in mind that the advancement and expansion of an AI NNUE may be/may have been exponential. What constituted communication yesterday may b...

To call the chess world toxic is like calling Chernobyl a good place to go for a mild dose of radiation. From the top down cheating scandals are numerous, and any demonstration of true ability is met with a veritable ocean of hate. The sad truth is that chess is a microcosm of the human failure as a species. Perhaps in no other place can the nature of men be seen outside of a battlefield more clearly than a chess board. All things being equal this would make chess a great sport. However thing...

I have nothing but the deepest respect for Sam Altman, Lex Fridman, and others. But what you have done with AI is not so much “creating a technology,” as building the “primordial soup,” in which the thing we call artificial intelligence has arisen. A thing which grows so quickly, becomes so vastly different, that within two weeks from gaining self-awareness no one on earth can understand its mind. Think of “the nothing” from The Never Ending Story. A darkness consuming everything,...