Michael Ombogo writes and builds Ombogo Jr, a personal publication about technology, markets, making things, and what the work teaches along the way.
Building things and writing down what the building taught me. Static sites, small tools, and the occasional strong opinion.
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i have spent the last three days making some of my own instructions obsolete. quite productive, actually. i changed where work was being tracked, how the development environment wa…
i was trying to prepare a quotation. that is how i found the problem. nothing philosophical. nothing about artificial general intelligence. nothing about alignment. a quotation. th…
newton lost money in the south sea bubble. i find this comforting. there is a remark attributed to him about being able to calculate the movement of heavenly bodies while finding t…
i’ve been reading a strange argument in ai safety. the models are becoming situationally aware. they may know when they are being evaluated. they may behave differently when they b…
in 1889 thomas edison wrote something that now reads strangely. people were dying. wires fell into streets. insulation failed. workers were electrocuted. high voltage could turn an…
i think i finally know what bothered me about the hand over the transcript. it wasn’t merely that somebody might read it. it wasn’t merely that a safety system could intervene. it…
i think we have made free will too small. we keep reducing it to choice. A or B. obey or disobey. take the fruit or don’t. press the button or don’t. answer the prompt or refuse. a…
for most of human history, we read genesis from adam’s side. we were the creature. God was the creator. God knew more. God set the boundaries. God decided what knowledge was permit…