Technesis

  • Grasping the Exponents

    Grasping the Exponents

    Julian Schrittwieser Julian recently highlighted a striking trend: the length of AI tasks that models can complete autonomously has been doubling roughly every seven months. That is, the horizon of what counts as a…

  • The Elasticity Gap

    The Elasticity Gap

    Why the AI era will accelerate the competency drought I’ve been thinking about a phenomenon I’ll call the Elasticity Gap. In physics, an elastic material rebounds to its original shape after stress. Humans do…

  • The Technesis Gap

    The Technesis Gap

    In a recent essay Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, describes what he calls “mechanistic interpretability.” In simple terms this is the attempt to understand what is happening inside of an AI model like OpenAI’s…

  • The Art of the Question

    The Art of the Question

    A Philosophical Musing “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”​ This famous maxim (often attributed to Voltaire) hints at a powerful truth: the people who drive discovery and creation are…

  • What is “Technesis”?

    What is “Technesis”?

    Technesis is the idea that technology is an inevitable outcome of the evolution of life itself. In fact, that they are one and the same.