The problem is not that institutions forget. It is that what they remember doesn't cost anybody in the here and now.

In a brain, reward is three systems that can disagree. A machine got one number that can’t.

What carved the canyons in machine intelligence, and why nothing exists to sand them.

Last week, I left a question hanging. The ledger, it turns out, can be edited at both ends. What happens when the beings built to bear consequences start behaving like the systems that were built without them?

What two years of being remembered by a machine taught me about the continuity question.