Thoughts and Threads on AI
A library of my talks on AI and what it changes, built as one map of ideas you can walk. The first talk is "When thinking gets cheap."
Parker Ferguson
Notes and projects from someone thinking hard about minds, matter, and what comes next.
I started in psychology and philosophy, went to music school, and ended up building software. Now I make things out of symbolic systems that think back. This site is where I try to understand what's coming and what a person should do about it. More about me
Projects
Refit AI
My consulting practice, for people, companies, and institutions working out what AI means for them. Electricity paid off once factories were rebuilt around it, and I think AI will too.
Writing
- Zombie InstitutionsEvery new information technology has outrun the institutions meant to govern it. This one writes back, and our institutions may already be near the end of their cycle.
- The Thermodynamics of Oppositional CaptureWhy movements that oppose power so often end up serving it, why rules outlive their reasons, and what it costs to keep seeing clearly.
- Smart nodes don't make a wise networkAgents critiquing agents and people arguing online run the same loop. Whether it finds the truth depends on how the network is wired and what it rewards, not on how smart any one node is.