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Longer essays on single ideas in superintelligence and AI safety: what they claim, why they matter and where the uncertainty lies, alongside short, sourced news updates. Newest first.
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- · Opinion · Perspective & Markets · Crypto · Trading · AI Agents
How AI Is Quietly Rewiring the Crypto World
A grounded look at how machine learning is reshaping crypto trading strategies—and why autonomous AI agents naturally gravitate toward programmable crypto rails.
- · Field Guide · Comparative Analysis · CASI vs ASI
CASI vs. ASI: Capability Without Consciousness vs. Sentient Superintelligence
A head-to-head comparison of Conscious Artificial Superintelligence (CASI) and standard ASI across architecture, detectability, safety risks, and governance.
- · Field Guide · Core Definitions · ASI · CASI
What is ASI and What is CASI? Core Definitions of Artificial Superintelligence
Foundational definitions and FAQs distinguishing superhuman cognitive capability (ASI) from subjective machine consciousness (CASI).
- · Opinion · Compute & Strategy · NVIDIA · Superintelligence
Opinion: What the NVIDIA Crisis Actually Means for the Race to Superintelligence
A perspective on Jensen Huang's sudden exit, why single-vendor dependency is cracking, and what hardware diversification means for the timeline to ASI.
- · Essay & Reflection · Superintelligence · Scaling · Future of AI
Can AI Become Superintelligent?
An unvarnished look at whether today's scaling path actually leads to Superintelligence—or where physics, data, and architecture might get in the way.
- · Field Guide · Compute & Hardware
The Silicon Foundation: Why GPUs and NVIDIA Engine the Superintelligence Era
A complete field guide covering GPU basics, parallel computing, CUDA network effects, and hardware compute bottlenecks in the ASI race.
- · News · Geopolitics · AI Governance · Superintelligence · US-China
NEWS! US and China Launch Superintelligence Dialogue Channel Ahead of Summit
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirms bilateral AI incident hotlines and pre-release testing exchanges between Washington and Beijing, while emphasizing fundamental technological competition remains unchanged.
- · News · Macroeconomics · Superintelligence · Elon Musk
NEWS! Elon Musk Forecasts $25 Trillion Global Output Expansion from Digital Superintelligence
Musk predicts software-based digital superintelligence will expand global GDP by 20% to 30%, doubling white-collar productivity.
- · Alignment · Control
The Capability vs. Control Problem
Why building more powerful AI systems becomes increasingly dangerous if we cannot guarantee precise control and alignment, and why control research must keep pace with capability scaling.
- · Alignment · Orthogonality
The Orthogonality Thesis
Why smart systems don’t automatically develop human moral values, and what Nick Bostrom’s thesis that intelligence and goals vary independently means for AI safety.
- · News · AI Policy · Super Intelligence
NEWS! Trump Declares Full Support for “Super Intelligence”
US President Donald Trump declares full support for super intelligence (SI) as an economic driver, urging states to embrace the technology.
- · News · AI Safety · Regulation · DOJ
NEWS! Department of Justice Launches Super Intelligence Task Force
The U.S. Department of Justice establishes a specialized Super Intelligence Task Force to coordinate law enforcement and security oversight.
- · AI Safety · Inner Alignment · Outer Alignment
Inner vs. Outer Alignment: The Two Halves of the AI Safety Puzzle
Explore the crucial distinction between outer alignment (specifying what we want) and inner alignment (what the AI actually learns to optimize) in machine learning.
- · AI Safety · Instrumental Convergence
Instrumental Convergence: Why Any Smart AI Might Want Power and Resources
Explore instrumental convergence—the sub-goals like self-preservation and resource acquisition that almost any intelligent system naturally develops regardless of its main task.
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