Diversity
Why many different kinds can live side by side instead of one winner taking everything.
3 essays, newest first
- The Flaw: Why You Cannot Code Bias Out of AI Can AI be unbiased? No mind generalizes without some bias, and AI trained on our text learns ours. Bias can be reduced; the debiasing to fear only hides it.
- A Reason to Be Rare I tried to force a digital world to split into distinct kinds. The fix was never a cost. It was giving each kind a reason to be rare. The quiet law behind diversity.
- You Can't Run a Brain on Sunlight I tried four ways to make my artificial world stop being one kind of creature. Three failed because the creature cheated. The fourth worked because I finally built a trade-off it couldn't cheat. Plus the embarrassing discovery that I'd been measuring the wrong thing all along.
