5 days agoTo de-risk AI, the government must accelerate knowledge productiontl;dr: significant near term AI risk is real and comes from the capacity for imagined ideas, good and evil, to be autonomously executed on by agentic AI, not emergent superintelligent aliens. To de-risk this, we need to align AI quickly, which requires producing new knowledge. To accelerate the production of…AI19 min readAI19 min read
Dec 27, 2022Webspaces: Rebooting the 3D Webtl;dr: Webspaces is a new way to create self-hosted 3D worlds on the web using just HTML. Visit webspaces.space, join the Discord , play around in an example on glitch, or download a blank webspace to get started! In The Secret Mozilla Hubs Master Plan, I laid out a possible…Web Development18 min readWeb Development18 min read
Mar 2, 2021The Rise of AvatarismThe next decade is going to be wild, and weird. The wave of disruption sweeping over our society from the Big Bang-like creation of the Internet seems to only be accelerating, and many long dreamed-of technologies such as AI, AR, VR, decentralized trust, and biological augmentation seem to be on…Avatar13 min readAvatar13 min read
Dec 2, 2020Introducing Jel: the video game for workJel is now live. Come try it, or read on to learn more. Earlier this year, I left my team at Mozilla to start something new. Five months later, I’m excited to share the news that Jel is now live for people to come try out. You can create a…Jel18 min readJel18 min read
Jun 23, 2020The Path To Mozilla HubsThis story, which began in the summer of 2014, is something I’ve wanted to write down for a while now. In large part so I don’t forget all that happened (at least, all that I remember) but also because it can help explain the origins of, and hence the motivations…Mozilla Hubs29 min readMozilla Hubs29 min read
Apr 19, 2020The Secret Mozilla Hubs Master PlanIn the spirit of the Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan, this article is about our master plan behind Hubs and Spoke at Mozilla, and the arrival of the web emergent metaverse. We predict that the 3D ‘metaverse’ will grow out of a similar set of pre-conditions as the World Wide…VR9 min readVR9 min read
Feb 6, 2020Evolutionary Simulation TheoryThe Simulation Hypothesis by Nick Bostrom lays out an argument regarding the underlying state of reality, claiming exactly one of the following must be true: The fraction of human-level civilizations that reach a posthuman stage (that is, one capable of running high-fidelity ancestor simulations) is very close to zero”, or …Simulation Hypothesis9 min readSimulation Hypothesis9 min read
