Peter Merrens
Author of fiction, essays and popular science, shaped by Armenian-Jewish roots and a life across six countries. Writes from rural Kent under his Medlara imprint, lectures at UT Dallas, and builds iPhone games — As…As… is the latest.
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Bot Mitzvah?
TechnologyA duckling solves the alignment problem in forty-eight hours with a brain the size of a peanut. The alignment industry starts with constraints and hopes wisdom emerges inside them. It has it exactly backwards: attachment first, law later.
The Epidemic of AI Epistemic Apartheid
TechnologyThere are two camps in the ring, slugging it out for the AI crown. xAI in one corner and everyone else in the other.
Proximal God: Ascension - Behind the novel
ProseNot quite a shameless plug for my latest novel, more the background story of how and why I wrote it. Plus an early review!
Occam's Ruler
ScienceShameless plug: Physics is broken and the scientists know. This is a takedown of modern theories and a real alternative.
