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Who, Exactly, Am “I”?

Distributed Intelligence and Consciousness, Now and In Our Future

9 min readOct 24, 2023

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A murmuration of starlings. Huge, organized flock of birds that seems to evince collective intelligence.

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Today’s AI’s: Not Sentient — But Getting Closer

From Hofstadter to Hinton: Dall-E, Deep Learning & “Slippability”

9 min readAug 14, 2022

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Today’s AI’s: Not Sentient — But Getting Closer

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Bumps on the Road to the Global Hive Mind

Immersive, Intelligent Social Media Are Inevitable, Despite The Horrible Dysfunction of Today’s Platforms

10 min readJan 1, 2022

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Bumps on the Road to the Global Hive Mind

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You nailed it, Umair. (Again).

Our world has real challenges, and these challenges could be tackled and at least mitigated by our most brilliant people.

1 min readJun 23, 2023

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DeSantis is a scary character.

Time will tell whether his humourless, charm-free persona resonates with the lowbrow MAGA hordes who crave entertainment.

1 min readMay 27, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence Probably Won’t Destroy Us, But Natural Stupidity Might

We Have Met the Enemy, and He Is Us

4 min readMay 2, 2023

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A broken TV sitting amidst other debris in a destroyed building, in some dystopian landscape.

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Interesting, brief overview — thanks for sharing it.

It seems to me that the Fiqh/Sufism dialectic in Islam is mirrored in other religious traditions as well.

1 min readFeb 8, 2023

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As usual these days, comments on Jordan Peterson seem to polarize into caricaturish extremes.

"Down with the patriarchy! Silence him!"

2 min readFeb 4, 2023

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A failed coup that goes unpunished is a dress rehearsal for the successful coup.

The insurrection leaders aren't only NOT in prison, they're on the House Oversight Committee; they're running for President again in '24…

1 min readJan 19, 2023

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Kubrick’s “2001” Anticipated Human Reliance on Untrustworthy AI

Will We Be Smart Enough to Put Adequate Safeguards in Place?

2 min readDec 25, 2022

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Image shows the “HAL 9000” computer interface, part of the set from Stanley Kubrick’s movie classic “2001: A Space Odyssey”.

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Evan Steeg

Evan Steeg

AI & digital health innovator. Sci-fi & football fan. Eastern Ontario via NYC, CT, Toronto. Degrees in Math, CS, Bfx. Bikes, hikes, dives & bass riffs.

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