As Bugs Bunny would say,
“Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive”.
Hi! Welcome to my personal blog. It’s not meant to be too professional, nor to be taken too seriously.
To get a feel for my pursuits and values, you may wish to take a few minutes to read the blog entries listed below. They are the most recent ones and are most representative of my current views and attitudes towards the issues that are covered. The entries are also categorised as either book reviews or opinions.
You might also be less motivated and just want a short summary of my interests. In that case, try here!
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Review - Collapse: How societies choose to fail or survive
It would appear that I am just as talented at complaining as I am at picking a time to start a book, because I really should begin by making the Singaporean-esque complaint that the recent weather is all too hot. It’s not just me, though: equatorial temperatures, soaring humidity levels and the urban heat island effect pits me against the unforgiving sun.
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Opinions - Three (mostly western) Things About AI
Over the past week, some prominent AI figures called for pacing frontier model development. They point, in part, to the recent OpenAI-HuggingFace security “incident”. For the longest time I privately disagree with the existential framing of model development and AI. While I don’t doubt the harm that superintelligence can do, I think that existential claims are only good servants insofar as they shed light on learned worries, but they are a bad master in that they distract from principled governance.