I’m Favour Ayorinde, an independent analyst, builder, and writer in Nigeria. I work on economics, AI, and progress.

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Six subjects, one long walk.

First, a series on what people get wrong about thinking machines.

Five parts, in order:

Part 1

Thinking is a process, not a feeling. Why the word fits machines better than most people expect.

Read Part 1

Part 2

Understanding belongs to learners, and it comes in parts and degrees, in people and in machines.

Read Part 2

Part 3

Causal reasoning is refined correlation, and anything that learns can learn it.

Read Part 3

Part 4

Every “AI can never” claim assumes a barrier. Five kinds, and which ones still hold.

Coming soon

Part 5

If machines think, what is left for us? Being different is not the same as having value.

Coming soon