Machinocene

Moore’s Policy Drift

What frontier AI governance can learn from the Wassenaar Arrangement's three zone diffusion model

Aug 10 • 

Kevin Kohler

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July 2025

We are all Kevin Roose now

Remember when New York Times journalist Kevin Roose made headlines reporting how Microsoft’s Bing chatbot (a version of GPT-4) tried to talk him into…

Jul 29 • 

Kevin Kohler

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Make Europe Cool Again

As I’m writing this, Europe has been suffering under a heatwave for about a week.

Jul 4 • 

Kevin Kohler

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June 2025

History should be taught with graphs

Here’s an experiment:

Jun 26 • 

Kevin Kohler

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May 2025

Many-to-One

How AI is enabling a new communication structure

May 28 • 

Kevin Kohler

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An AI companion service has customers, not partners

The “From AGI with love” mini-series looks at the future prospect of romantic human-AI relationships.

May 8 • 

Kevin Kohler

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We need to prepare for a post-labor economy

In March, EpochAI released an AI automation prediction model, which predicts rising wages for the near-term, but a rapidly declining labor share of…

May 1 • 

Kevin Kohler

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February 2025

Mr. Doge goes to Washington

There is a new government department in town.

Feb 18 • 

Kevin Kohler

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Meet hot shoggoths near you

Attracting males by artificially mimicking the presence of an attractive female is one of the oldest tricks in the book for hunters.

Feb 6 • 

Kevin Kohler

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Can Europe learn from MITI-era Japan?

We don’t exactly associate Japan with dynamism today.

Feb 4 • 

Kevin Kohler

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January 2025

From AGI with love

Can you imagine falling in love with an AI?

Jan 30 • 

Kevin Kohler

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December 2024

The case for a Cosmic Endowment Fund

More than 99.99% of our Universe’s natural resources, from the deep seabed, the Moon, asteroids, and beyond, are the common heritage of mankind. I don’t…

Dec 24, 2024 • 

Kevin Kohler

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