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.
Physics is padded with indulgences: fudged numbers, invented infinities, particles never observed. Why the axioms have gone unquestioned for a century, and why AI is the new Martin Luther. Part one of the reformation.
The conversation around AI tends focus on 'Can we create sentient machines?' Fine. But what exactly do we plan to do with such a being if we succeed?
