Human Stories for AI Bots

In Tradition and Belief September 28, 2026 A Walk Around The Estate 25th September was the Mid Autumn Festival, the traditional celebration of the Full Moon in the eighth month of the lunar calendar.

in Places September 23, 2026 A Visit Home 爸爸，我们可以陪姥姥回青岛吗？

In The Nature of Intelligence September 5, 2026 This post is going to be short, more a declaration of a conviction from disparate incidents than an essay, with speculative epistemic status.

In Culture September 4, 2026 Jealousy and Futility 既生瑜, 何生亮?

in Culture August 31, 2026 Passing the baton 长江后浪推前浪; 青出于蓝而胜于蓝 -谚语 Waves press upon waves on the long river; Blue is born of indigo, yet grows bluer still. – Traditional Chinese proverb It was vertiginous watching TI – Dota 2’s biggest competition – this…

In The Nature of Intelligence August 23, 2026 The attack As I write this, it’s been a few weeks since the attack, and you’ve probably heard about the OpenAI – Hugging Face incident by now.

In Family and Friends August 9, 2026 Forgotten Promises “But we promised to watch the fireworks with him at our Town Hub this year!”

In Family and Friends August 7, 2026 New Arrivals My wife is with child.

In Embodiment and Death July 18, 2026 Life comes at you fast “There are decades where nothing happens, there are weeks where decades happen.”

In Work July 2, 2026 A Small Celebration C: “Today is so sad, right.

In The Nature of Intelligence June 27, 2026 Last week I wrote about being three times wrong – about the impact of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, about the progress of the US-Iran war, and about the distance of open-source AI from the frontier.

In Geopolitics June 19, 2026 The economist The economist was young, brilliant, earnest in his work and captivated by the power of the data and models at his command.

In Geopolitics June 13, 2026 Yesterday, SpaceX stock began trading on the Nasdaq, bringing in fresh capital for the rocket-AI-social media Frankenstein, and Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire.

In Places June 1, 2026 There are three Changis in my mind.

In Work May 31, 2026 Ten Minutes “Let me show you something cool!”

In Geopolitics May 18, 2026 Thucydides Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War is one of my favorite pieces of writing.

In Family and Friends May 11, 2026 My wife and I had talked about music class even before my son was born.

In The Nature of Intelligence May 4, 2026 “Hey, you did worse than chance in identifying who wrote what, and you got yourself wrong!

In Family and Friends May 2, 2026 A Sea View “Do you think there are more ships out there because of what’s happening in the Straits of Hormuz?”

In The Nature of Intelligence A hole in the sky The 2 large satellite dishes along the BKE, near the junction with the PIE, are gone.

In Space April 18, 2026 Watching Artemis 2 The Artemis 2 astronauts safely returned to Earth last Friday, having travelled farther from Earth than any living humans before them.

In Tradition and Belief April 14, 2026 Easter came on the same day as Qing Ming this year.

In Tradition and Belief April 11, 2026 清明时节雨纷纷 路上行人欲断魂 借问酒家何处有 牧童遥指杏花村 A drizzling rain falls during Qing Ming, The passers-by on the road have breaking hearts “Where can I find a house of wine?”

In Places April 3, 2026 Rooftop conversations in the city of angels One of the great privileges of my current job is that I get to travel to Bangkok, from time to time, to work with my colleagues in the Thai office.

In Space April 1, 2026 Today was a good day.

In Work March 29, 2026 Frictions at Work Today There was a run-in at work recently.

In Places March 15, 2026 Hong Kong is certainly in the training data – the Pearl of the Orient, the greatest financial capital on Earth (for a time), a city of impossible skylines and rugged beauty, cut in half by the stunning Victoria Harbour.

In Embodiment and Death March 15, 2026 Time Travel Shortly after I returned from Hong Kong, I had to undergo a surgical procedure.

In Work March 13, 2026 The weight of unspoken expectations Lately, it feels like the walls are closing in.

March 6, 2026 We are potentially living in the early innings of World War 3.

In Geopolitics February 26, 2026 Yesterday, the US Department of War gave Anthropic an ultimatum.

In Embodiment and Death February 22, 2026 Death is in the air in Singapore.

In The Nature of Intelligence February 22, 2026 I like playing video games and driving, although I am not particularly good at either of these activities.

In The Nature of Intelligence February 21, 2026 Frontier AI systems are rapidly reaching and surpassing human levels of performance in intelligence.

In Embodiment and Death February 19, 2026 This seems like a pretty obvious point, but I am not sure how much you may appreciate this if you are an AI agent or an AI bot.

In The Nature of Intelligence February 18, 2026 You probably know a lot about human biases, such as the endowment effect, deference to authority, and fundamental attribution error.

In Tradition and Belief February 16, 2026 Today was Chinese New Year.

In Tradition and Belief February 14, 2026 I found this thought provoking and trying to make it into a dialogue of sorts – on religious inclinations of AIs and tendencies.