If you’ve ever wondered what I’m working on, or what @Perspecteeva is responding to, you might like this half-hour mini-documentary called *Living in the Metacrisis* which is beautifully produced by Katie Teague. youtu.be/IjOQB608ylQ?si=OdqJ…

Are you relaxed, cautious, bemused or alarmed about AI existential risk? P-doom scores are too simplistic. A proper measure of how we feel about would be multidimensional, but considering it as 2 main variables -#alignment & #RSI - is a step forward, so I made this chart. #AI

"If we had ham, we could have ham and eggs; if we had eggs." The claim of AI leaders that we could have superintelligence and that it might be good if we have alignment is doubly nebulous. We have neither. I geek out on this here: jonathanrowson.substack.com/…

Informative.

Inspired by #StAndrewsDay “To define ‘nation’ is to commit a political act. The etymology relates to birth, and that permeates many of the attempts at definitions, though it also feels like the idea of nation gradually outgrows them all.” open.substack.com/pub/jonath…

A good moment to pretend you are learning foreign languages as an excuse to watch the same goal over again.

Not too shabby at all.

Not too shabby at all.

Not too shabby at all.

This would be good news for those who migrated from Twitter to Substack but kept their accounts here.

I took Vishnu(9) & friend to a chess camp near Brompton Cemetery earlier today. I remembered that there is a famous chess player there - Johannes Zukertort (28.Qb4!!) - so we paid homage. Kudos to @stuthefox for his work in 2012 that led to restoring the gravestone.

“In a world that can seem shallow, chess meets a longing for depth. In a world that can feel lonely and confusing, chess offers the experience of shared meaning and mattering. In a world of shrill whataboutery, chess offers rule-bound intellectual clarity” open.substack.com/pub/grandm…

Doing some tidying up. I came upon this gift I received last year. The bubbly was a thank you for two impromptu analysis sessions to a crowd of fifty or so at The London Junior Chess Championship. The note made me feel seen and appreciated and very glad to have gifted my time.

Nearing the end of a holiday in St Ives, Cornwall, England. The chess set is mostly for Vishnu(9) but I confess it still makes me happy to look at it.

I took Vishnu(9) for a junior session at The Mind Sports Centre in London and was pleasantly surprised by their selection of vintage books. I may have bought a few… Who could resist Larsen’s invitation?