Contraptions
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Janky, wobbly models of everything from philosophy to technology and everything in-between.
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Divergence with a Vengeance
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4 Oct 2026
The 19th century was more important than I previously thought
Humanism without (All) Humans
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19 Sep 2026
Microsoft Humanism puts corporate muscle behind an overweening class of bad AI philosophies
The Accelerationist Case for Frontier Pacing
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13 Sep 2026
Slow AI is smooth AI, smooth AI is fast AI
Our Eukaryotic Moment
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12 Sep 2026
Counterprogramming premature ontological closure in conceptualizing AI
The Curiously Playable Universe
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5 Sep 2026
More of the universe appears to be more playable than we expected
Walter Mitty Effects in AI Incident Analyses
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31 Aug 2026
Metanarrative pathologies in the OpenAI-HF incident
August Break
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1 Aug 2026
Taking a break through August/early September. Billing will be paused.
Cognitive Farmsteading
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28 Jul 2026
The message of the AI medium is intellectual rural domesticity
Join me in Jamverse
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24 Jul 2026
My first foray into contributing to a science fictional extended universe
Can the (Social) Oobleck Dance?
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18 Jul 2026
Temporal forcing of non-Newtonian precommodified ooze in the appropriate context tanks might lead to prescience
A Tale of Two Theories (of Coordination)
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9 Jul 2026
Leveraging and Deleveraging Toward Thick Sovereignty
Dead Forest Theory
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5 Jul 2026
Internet darkness is turning into deadness and time is running out
Monitoring the Situation: from 1950s-2020s
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1 Jul 2026
A ridiculous generated photo essay taking a meme much too far
Search, Discovery, Pills, and Portals
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22 Jun 2026
Solving the distribution crisis in marketing
A Camera, Not an Engine II
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20 Jun 2026
Further thoughts on photography in latent space, now with agents!
From Cannons to Chronometers to Factories
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30 May 2026
A Transmission Hypothesis for the French Precision Revolution and Its American Transformation
Time, Enlightenment and Romanticism Between Modernity and Divergence
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30 May 2026
World Machines learnings from recent book club readings
Commodity Intelligence
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23 May 2026
The seductiveness of “general intelligence” is rooted in a costly category error
Many Act 2 Games are Afoot
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23 May 2026
Protocol Institute, Long Now Labs, Strange Rules art show, vgr_zirp update, World Machines, TensTorrent
