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Weekly Links, 11/17/2025
https://kk.org/thetechnium/weekly-links-11-17-2025/
Published: November 14, 2025 22:37
This is not a headline you see everday…Orcas have devised a clever trick to gang up on great white sharks and eat their livers, which has been captured on video for the first time. I appear in this news report … Continue reading →
Essentials for Independent Travel in China
https://kk.org/thetechnium/essentials-for-independent-travel-in-china/
Published: October 29, 2025 18:40
You should visit China. It’s vast, very diverse, safe, easy to get around, inexpensive, interesting, not what you expect, and increasingly important in the world. Go see for yourself. However, unlike the rest of the world, China uses its own … Continue…
Weekly Links, 10/03/2025
https://kk.org/thetechnium/weekly-links-10-03-2025/
Published: October 8, 2025 22:21
AI agents like to post and do better if they blog: We Built Social Media for Agents and They Won’t Stop Posting
Paying AIs to Read My Books
https://kk.org/thetechnium/paying-ais-to-read-my-books/
Published: October 7, 2025 17:09
Some authors have it backwards. They believe that AI companies should pay them for training AIs on their books. But I predict in a very short while, authors will be paying AI companies to ensure that their books are included … Continue reading →
The Periodic Table of Cognition
https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-periodic-table-of-cognition/
Published: September 23, 2025 22:50
I’ve been studying the early history of electricity’s discovery as a map for our current discovery of artificial intelligence. The smartest people alive back then, including Isaac Newton, who may have been the smartest person who ever lived, had confident…
The Trust Quotient (TQ)
https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-trust-quotient-tq/
Published: September 2, 2025 20:15
Wherever there is autonomy, trust must follow. If we raise children to go off on their own, they need to be autonomous and we need to trust them. (Parenting is a school for learning how to trust.) If we make … Continue reading →
Emotional Agents
https://kk.org/thetechnium/emotional-agents/
Published: August 23, 2025 21:57
Many people have found the intelligence of AIs to be shocking. This will seem quaint compared to a far bigger shock coming: highly emotional AIs. The arrival of synthetic emotions will unleash disruption, outrage, disturbance, confusion, and cultural shock…
Everything I Know about Self-Publishing
https://kk.org/thetechnium/everything-i-know-about-self-publishing/
Published: August 13, 2025 15:01
In my professional life, I’ve had several bestselling books published by New York publishers, as well as many other titles that sold modestly. I have also self-published a bunch of books, including one bestseller on Amazon and two massive hit … Continue…
No Limit for Better
https://kk.org/thetechnium/no-limit-for-better/
Published: August 11, 2025 19:23
I want to argue that intelligence may be unique among all resources on the planet. It may be the only resource we create that sees truly infinite, insatiable demand. Pricing abundance is tricky. Netflix, Spotify, and millions of software apps … Continue…
Artificial Intelligences, So Far
https://kk.org/thetechnium/artificial-intelligences-so-far/
Published: August 5, 2025 16:59
I wrote this short memo last November, 2024, at the invitation of Wired Mid-East for their year-end issue. I think it still holds up nine months later, and represents where we are on this astounding journey. There are three points … Continue reading →