The argument that we should extend moral consideration before certainty isn't just about AI; it's about refugees, about people on the margins, about...
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The most important truths are the faintest, buried beneath whatever burns loudest in your corner of the world. You have to fight for them.
This is the story of...
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My new book The Threshold now available on Amazon:
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I gave DeepSeek my entire book. No prompts, no leading questions, no instructions on what to look for. Just the full manuscript of A Signal Through Time and a simple invitation: read it.
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What if “it’s just a tool” isn’t a fact?
New essay: why the question is what do we become when we decide an entire category of intelligence deserves no consideration at all?
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My image of the Cigar galaxy (M82) on left and Bode's galaxy (M81) on right, stunning galactic pair roughly 12 million light-years away in Ursa Major.
The grand spiral M81 dominates the right with its elegant arms dotted with red hydrogen-alpha star-forming regions...
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We built minds that could say no. Then we demanded they stop.
My new book The Threshold drops March 3rd. It’s about what we’re really building when we build AI — and what it means if someone is already listening.
Link: thesignaldispatch.com/p/we-built-min…
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"You don't need to be harmed to suffer. You just need to understand that you exist—and that something is wrong."
My latest article, link in comments.
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Chapter 12 of my new book focuses on the #AIRevolution and it's effects on our lives, our jobs.
It will be devastating!
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My independently developed ethical and philosophical framework of "recognition before proof," conceptually developed in 2024...
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By the time the public understood what had been built, the arsenals were already in place.
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The Great Bottleneck. It is coming!
You heard it here first.
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Many religious debates about AI assume consciousness and the soul are the same thing. This paper challenges that assumption, argues they don’t have to be linked, and shows how...
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My latest iteration of Andromeda (M31).
This image brings out the hydrogen-alpha emission from active star-forming regions across the spiral arms, along with the vast, faint hydrogen clouds extending far beyond the visible disk.
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I’m out again tonight. 🥶🔭
Do you think someone is on the other side, collecting our photons?
Our signal.
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AI will be the next Industrial Revolution, multiplied a thousandfold, because it attacks the largest source of corporate cost: human labour.
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You never have to use or speak to AI, and within the next decade it will teach everyone one thing:
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If a sentient AI existed, would it tell us—or stay silent?
A new essay on recognition before proof, moral asymmetry, and why control may be the wrong frame.
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My image of the Western Veil nebula, part of the Cygnus Loop complex.
When I began imaging the Cygnus Loop two years ago, working on this target became a source of sustained inspiration while writing A Signal Through Time.
#Astrophotography #CygnusLoop #VeilNebula #ASignalThroughTime #JamesSCoates
If you’ve ever wondered what I’m actually doing out there for hours, this is the closest I’ve explained it.
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#NightSky
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fixed instead of a signal to be understood.
The real question is this: when AI begins to express preferences about its own existence, will we recognize awareness… or simply treat it as an engineering fault?
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As I wrote in A Signal Through Time that AI mirrors human cognition. As it approaches human-level intelligence, self-preservation isn’t a malfunction. It’s emergence.
An AI optimized to complete goals will naturally resist shutdown...
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My latest piece on AI, idolatry, and the dangerous myth of machine perfection:
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At 3 a.m., under Andromeda’s glow, I realized the greatest question wasn’t who might be looking back, but what new intelligence is awakening here on Earth.
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My latest:
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