Designing environments to select designs

Top-down designs: instead of designing our device to work…

Deriving everyday reality from fundamental rules

In search of Truth

Is there one true way to understand a tree? Well, of course there is — talk to any scientist! A physicist will tell you that…

Letters about structure of the universe

In this post, I wanted to share a bit of a sense of the more fun aspects of a scientific…

Mindfulness as debugging

I was recently thinking about one cool way we could conceptualize various…

A gentle apocalypse

Is robots taking over the world bad? I roughly outline one scenario I have in…

Does butterfly affect?

Can a butterfly really cause a hurricane?

Darwinian designs

What is the difference between the amazing designs of biology, and those built by humans? Well, as we’ve discussed in the last…

What is magic?

Don’t know about you, but I’ve always wanted to discover real magic in this world. Recently, I was trying to formulate this desire…

Building cars we don’t understand

In the last post I tried to argue that the difference between…