Essays
Thinking in public about technology, evolution, and minds.
The Mirror Will Sing Back
AI content looks unappealing when we imagine fake artists broadcasting to everyone. The stranger future is private media generated for one person, where the human you connect to is yourself.
The Fourth Wound
The argument that machines are alive is intellectually addressable. The recoil it triggers is not. Freud counted three blows to human self-love. The fourth has already been struck.
Three Landmarks
The 2020 crossover was the headline. It was also the least interesting thing that has happened to the planet's biomass in modern history. The two landmarks ahead of us matter more — and one of them is already nearly impossible to undo.
Manifest, Don't Import
The Markdown Interface Manifesto. Stop loading code from every corner of the internet. Depend on specifications. Let the implementation be summoned.
Neanderthals Didn't Lose a War. They Lost a Trade Network.
The AI-replacement debate assumes a fight. The most thorough extinction in our lineage happened without one — and that should unsettle you more than any war.