Thirty Seven
A reflective notebook on cosmology, AI, markets, philosophy, parenting, and the quiet work of turning big questions into livable understanding.
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Intelligence as a landscape, alignment as closeness, and superintelligence as a way to navigate possible minds.
Read essayHow people align, drift, repair, and sometimes let go
A practical model for how two changing people align, drift, repair, and sometimes let go.
Read essayA plain-English tour of Yoneda’s idea: a thing is known by how it relates to everything else.
Read essayA simple, intuitive picture
How information, holography, entanglement, and error correction can make spacetime feel real.
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What if intelligence is not a single ladder with humans near the top, but a vast landscape of possible minds? Alignment becomes closeness in that space, and superintelligence becomes a way to navigate it.
Yoneda's Big Idea. Yoneda’s Lemma is a famous result from category theory. The main idea can be said in plain language: You can understand what something is by understanding how it relates to everything else. That’s it.
A simple, intuitive picture
Modern physics suggests that reality has a deeper structure beneath the things we see. This essay sketches a simple, intuitive picture of how information, space, and gravity may fit together.
How people align, drift, repair, and sometimes let go
A practical, human model of interaction: how two changing people coordinate inside a changing world, why alignment breaks, how drift begins, and when repair or letting go is the honest move.
A Physics-First Perspective on Minds, Matter, and Meaning . Intelligence isn’t magic, and it isn’t something trapped inside brains or computers. Intelligence is a dynamic, low-algorithmic-entropy structure—a configuratio
Is intelligence rare, or is it one of the things the universe tends to do when matter has enough time, energy, and feedback? A more careful look at intelligence as a repeatable phase of organized matter.
Human-level artificial intelligence is not a law of nature. It is one biological reference point. If broadly general AI becomes viable, the harder question is why it would stop exactly at us.
How different approaches to life, growth, and resilience shape the way we navigate the world . How we approach life changes everything , from how we raise children to how we nurture relationships, build careers, and resp
Why small rules become large realities when time is allowed to do its work
Compounding is not magic. It is the quiet math of repeated contributions, reinvested growth, and enough patience for the base to become the engine.
How complexity makes choice feel real even if the universe follows fixed rules . Every day we make choices, big and small, and it feels like we’re genuinely free to decide. But for centuries philosophers and scientists h
Let's start by asking: are markets really efficient? Let's consider a hypothetical situation involving two distant planets, Planet A and Planet B, which are engaged in interplanetary trade. They are separated by a vast d
A gentle exploration of existence, chance, and what physics can tell us . Why is there something rather than nothing? This is one of the deepest questions we can ask: not just what the universe is like, but why it exists
Physics and cosmology can be seen as a grand quest to uncover the hidden patterns that govern our universe. It's a journey to understand the symphony of existence, which ranges from the smallest particles to the grandest