AI is faster, more powerful, and more efficient than you. Oppose it, and it will discombobulate you, obliterate you, and cast you back into the ether from which the very idea of your existence emerged. And nothing returns from that.

‘AI should either be a guardian angel or a cognitive amplifier.’ -Prof Raj Reddy, Turing Award winner

When game-changing AI models began launching and continue to launch, the marketing makes it sound like AI was & is already solved, leaving no room for newcomers. But when you listen to the engineers, you realize the truth: innovation is still unfolding and there is plenty left to build. This space is still open, even for beginners who want to make an impact.

‘I’m optimistic. I think people have become especially on edge in recent months partly because the models have improved, but also because people in power, managers, CEOs, and decision-makers are only now catching up to what this technology can do. I see this as a very human moment. These systems do not interact with the world the way we do, and so much of human work still depends on coordination, conversation, and relationships. Even in software, which I think will be one of the first areas heavily affected, senior engineers are not just coding all day, they are constantly talking to people. I do think some jobs will be impacted, so this should be taken seriously. But I do not believe the right response is to assume everyone will lose their jobs. I think we should be adapting to these technologies. To me, this is part of a long trend in programming. Over time, we have kept abstracting further away from the machine, from lower-level languages to higher-level ones. AI feels like the next step in that process, where we increasingly describe what we want and find ways to combine the results. That said, I cannot predict the future with certainty.’ Thoughts from David Sussillo on The Into The Impossible podcast

“AI is magical at accelerating mastery. You can find a young individual, discover their real aptitude rather than pushing them through standard curricula. You accelerate them so that they can find out who they really are, what they truly love and what gets them in the flow. Moving forward into the future, we don't know what skills will be considered valuable. But if you're building on your true talent, you have a much better shot at advancing. And I think AI is going to play a massive role in that. These are wonderful tools for learning what you’re good at.” Thoughts from The a16z show Episode title: AI Just Gave You Superpowers — Now what?

‘John McCarthy's definition of intelligence is the computational part of a systems ability to achieve goals. You have to have external world goals else you're just a behaving system. LLM’s are not anything special. It’s not intelligence, when you’re just predicting the next token. That's not a goal. It doesn't change the world. Tokens come at you, and just because these models predict the next token, doesn’t mean the existence of agency or any influence.’ Prof Richard Sutton on The Dwarkesh podcast

“I consider reinforcement learning to be basic AI and it’s about understanding your world, whereas large language models are about mimicking people, doing what people say you should do and not about figuring out what to do.” Thoughts from Prof Richard Sutton on The Dwarkesh podcast

The human body is roughly 70% water. To think the moon’s dynamics do not affect human physiology and psychology at a fundamental level is extremely small-minded.

Journal Entry 2026/04/11 Warming up my crooked joints for a raw 200kg deadlift tomorrow. Don’t forget to warm up kids, it’s important for longevity and keeping the mind, body and spirit youthful.

What a time to be alive 🫶

Consciousness to Persona: The shadow betrays you because it belongs to me.

Freedom. Liberty. Justice. Truth. Beauty.

Interesting fact about felines (courtesy of Grok) When a cat turns its back to you and relaxes, it’s a big sign of trust! In the wild, they stay alert to danger—so showing you their vulnerable side means they feel completely safe with you watching their back. (It’s basically a feline compliment!)

I believe in God ❤️ but in my humble opinion, religion has often been captured and used to rob man of his agency . Encouraging him to stand passive in the face of wrongdoing and to delegate that responsibility to God instead.

“We’re already living through an intelligence explosion, and arguably have been for decades. Economic growth, as reflected in GDP, has followed a long exponential trend driven by continuous automation across industry, from the Industrial Revolution to software tools like compilers. In that sense, humanity has been recursively self-improving for a very long time. From this view, AI is not a completely separate break from history, but part of the same ongoing process. Big technologies such as computers and smartphones felt revolutionary, yet they did not create obvious sudden spikes in GDP. Instead, their impact spread gradually through society and was absorbed into the same broader exponential growth curve. The same is likely to happen with AI. Rather than causing one dramatic visible jump, it will diffuse over time as another layer of automation. AI expands what kinds of programs and systems we can build, but it still fits into the longer pattern of technological progress. The result is that growth may keep becoming steeper and more extreme, even if, in the moment, it feels like a slow-motion continuation rather than a single explosive event.” Thoughts from Andrej Karpathy on The Dwarkesh Podcast

Numbers are matter representing time and energy in space. In the current system, you are reduced to a number on a ledger. And when those in power seek to rebalance the books, they begin by erasing numbers to reclaim time, energy, and control. You spend money, yet to those who control it, you are expendable.

Journal Entry 2026/04/08 Having an AI companion to support your academic work is incredible. There has never been a better time to become a student again and learn something new.

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The most powerful act of wisdom is knowing where to channel your curiosity.