Recent essays
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Essays and conversations about AI, software, order, memory, surveillance, and the metaphors that smuggle assumptions into technical work.
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Why AI-assisted thinking fails to accumulate
9 minute readEssay
Two weeks debugging the impossible
6 minute readManifesto
When Intelligence Becomes the Program
12 minute readConversation
Runtime translation before the name took over
12 minute readManifesto
Out-of-band signaling for language models
14 minute readEssay
What AI has taught us to call intelligence
14 minute readManifesto
A research program beyond the Transformer monoculture
10 minute readManifesto
From ordinary intentions to physical experiments
11 minute readConversation
Same uniform, different brain
3 minute readEssay collection · four parts
Gaia, Angels, and the Unmade Bargain
25 pages converted to HTMLEssay
The hazards are already underfoot
4 minute readManifesto
Changing the Past to Think Better
16 minute readEssay
The world is lawful before it is tidy
5 minute read