Micheal Lanham·Jun 28There’s an Equation for the Perfect Mind. The Problem Is the Ruler Keeps Melting.AIXI is the gold-standard reasoner, and provably impossible to build. DeepMind’s final pages use it to cap the map, then admit the scarier…
Micheal Lanham·Jun 27Not a God in a Box. The Hard Limits on Superintelligence, and the Test for Real Creativity.Even runaway superintelligence is chained to physics and logic, may only remix our ideas rather than invent its own, and need not be a…
Micheal Lanham·Jun 26Walls Move When You Push on Them. Here’s the Test for Which AI Limits Are Real.We are about to finish reading the internet, and that is not the wall you think. DeepMind’s June 2026 report names six AI bottlenecks and a…
Micheal Lanham·Jun 25Four Roads to Superhuman AI. The Receipt Is Real, the Runaway Is Not.An AI just sped up the very code used to train its own successor. Here are the four engineering roads from human-level to superhuman…A response icon1
Micheal Lanham·Jun 24It’s Not the Genius. It’s the Exponent.AI capability rides three multiplying curves at once, roughly 10x more “effective compute” every year. Here’s the math behind that number…