Removing constraints

Companies, technologies and even countries of operation will change over a lifetime. What I want to keep fixed is a single trunk: remove constraints, expand intelligence, expand human capability, expand civilization.

Intelligence engineering

I call the core of this work intelligence engineering: using engineering to push past the limits of intelligence. Artificial intelligence, quantum and advanced computing, physical AI and brain–computer interfaces are not separate goals. They are successive rungs of the same ladder. Quantum reservoir computing is a means, not the purpose. So is any single product.

The measure

The measure I care about is not company size, wealth or attention. It is irreversible change: something humanity once treated as a limit that is now permanently removed. A company is worth building only if it moves that line.

Attention, rankings and titles are fuel at best. They are poor decision criteria.

One trunk, held for decades

Curiosity is a strength, and also a risk: turning every interest into a business scatters capital, time and talent, and compounding dies. So the discipline is to drive one stake deep, in the field where I can hold the first principles, and to keep other directions as research, intellectual property and relationships until they earn their own time.

Where this leads

The longest horizon of the same trunk is human augmentation, healthy longevity and the expansion of where people can live and work. These are directions I study and care about, not products or results. The shorter-term work is described under Projects: DeepRecommend and QIRI.

Technology should not replace humanity. It should expand its possibilities.