Book 2 Update
Since Bitstreams of Hope is starting to get more readers, I thought I’d give people an update on where I’m at with book 2. As always, I have to juggle writing with my full-time job, but it’s progressing. I’m doing…
Andy Haymaker
Don’t Boycott AI, Especially If You Hate It
These days, morally sensitive people say things like, “There’s no ethical way to use AI”. Believe me, I get it. I wrote earlier about all the reasons a backlash against the current set of AI models is justified. The big…
OpenAI, DeepMind, and Anthropic Should Merge
It has long been a published principle of OpenAI that in order to avoid dangerous races, they will stop what they’re doing and shift to helping any other lab they believed was close to creating Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), i.e.,…
The AI Backlash
It should be clear that I’m an AI optimist. I think AI can make life for humanity much, much better than it’s ever been. I used to be a naive optimist, thinking that AI would almost automatically be good, because…
Transitioning from Bits to Atoms
One of the things that’s surprised me the most is how long it takes to get the book out into the world, even after the words are cover art are finalized. I plan to write about my struggles with Adobe…
What Just Happened With Sam Altman
I’m not going to post often enough to comment much on current events, but the fall and redemption of Sam Altman is too big to ignore. I’m convinced that historians will still be dissecting this event decades from now, assuming…
Writing Bitstreams of Hope
I’ve been writing for a long time. Even as an engineering student, most of my electives were in writing. For while, I thought I’d focus on poetry. As I advanced in my software career, I often kept a side project…
Writing With AI
Using AI to create anything is a socially and psychologically complex activity these days. Whether it’s a work email, a blog post, a personal letter, a school essay, ad copy, an image, or a story, there are plenty of people…
The Bitstreams Thread
In the Afterword of Bitstreams of Hope, I described The Bitstreams Thread this way: As you may have noticed, Bitstreams of Hope is just Book One of The Bitstreams Thread. Each book in this series of standalone-but-related novels covers different…