I may be misunderstanding some aspects of current world-model approaches, so I’d appreciate corrections. This post raises a narrow question about whether models optimized primarily for retrospective prediction are sufficient for human-like agency. There is growing interest in “world models” as a pathway toward more general intelligence, including recent advocacy...
The AI community is sprinting toward a cliff, convinced they're running toward the finish line. The dominant approach right now? World models—systems that can predict what happens next with incredible accuracy. Build a good enough model of the world, they say, and intelligence emerges. AGI solved. They're wrong. Not because...
The Origin Story of Temporal Catastrophe Theory A personal account of how I developed this framework (December 2025) I’ve just published a 5-part series on Temporal Catastrophe Theory — a new lens for understanding why AI agents, even when perfectly aligned on objectives, can still cause catastrophe: not because they...