Open Letter to Anti-Zionists on Twitter
Dear Twitter Anti-Zionists, For five months, ever since Oct. 7, I’ve read you obsessively. While my...
Never go to “Planet Word” in Washington DC
In fact, don’t try to take kids to Washington DC if you can possibly avoid it....
On being faceless
Update: Alright, I’m back in. (After trying the same recovery mechanisms that didn’t work before, but...
The Problem of Human Specialness in the Age of AI
Here, as promised in my last post, is a written version of the talk I delivered...
On whether we’re living in a simulation
Unrelated Announcement (Feb. 7): Huge congratulations to longtime friend-of-the-blog John Preskill for winning the 2024 John...
Does fermion doubling make the universe not a computer?
Unrelated Announcement: The Call for Papers for the 2024 Conference on Computational Complexity is now out!...
Postdocs wanted!
David Soloveichik, my friend and colleague in UT Austin’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department, and I are...
Rowena He
This fall, I’m honored to have made a new friend: the noted Chinese dissident scholar Rowena...
On being wrong about AI
I’m being attacked on Twitter for … no, none of the things you think. This time...
Weird but cavity-free
Over at Astral Codex Ten, the other Scott A. blogs in detail about a genetically engineered...
Staggering toward quantum fault-tolerance
Happy Hanukkah! I’m returning to Austin from a Bay Area trip that included the annual Q2B...