Chris von Csefalvay

Egocentric video for robot training now exists at a scale that is genuinely hard to hold in your head, and I have spent this week thinking about everything that is not in it.

There is a peculiar moment in writing a book when something that has existed for years as notes, code, arguments, tracked changes and annoying my unusually patient and kind editors becomes an object with mass.

When I was perhaps five, I asked my mom where the soul was.

TipHey, I’m writing a book about this!

There’s an old parable about a drunk searching for his keys under a streetlamp.

TipHey, I’m writing a book about this!

TipHey, I’m writing a book about this!

TipHey, I’m writing a book about this!

In the dying days of the Roman Republic, there existed a class of functionaries called nomenclatores.

Hype, slop, craft: the evolutionary ecology of AI There’s a patch of ground near Chernobyl that botanists call Рудий ліс, the Red Forest.

Note Originally written on 01 November 2025, this post was published on 09 November 2025 to comply with pre-publication review.

This is about the time of year when I get the sudden and irresistible urge to make kimchi.

In 1790, the French Academy of Sciences commissioned a rather ambitious survey.

Roughly 541 million years ago, something extraordinary happened in Earth’s oceans.

Around two years ago, almost to the day, I spent an absolutely frantic evening in Berkeley, going through enough coffee to power a mid-sized city, hammering away at my laptop on trying to figure out what comes after LLMs.

There’s a cave in Ethiopia, in an area called Dikika.

When Pygmalion carved Galatea from ivory, he fell so deeply in love with his creation that he begged Aphrodite to bring her to life.

I’ve spent the better part of this weekend putting OpenAI’s latest offerings through their paces - both the newly released open-weight models and GPT-5 itself.

The Greeks loved oracles.

There’s a curious terminological schism that nobody talks about at what passes for dinner parties for the AI crowd.