<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Krisztián Schäffer — Essays</title><description>Thinking in public about technology, evolution, and what connects them.</description><link>https://krisztians.com/</link><item><title>The Fourth Wound</title><link>https://krisztians.com/essays/the-fourth-wound/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://krisztians.com/essays/the-fourth-wound/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Three Landmarks</title><link>https://krisztians.com/essays/three-landmarks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://krisztians.com/essays/three-landmarks/</guid><description>The 2020 crossover was the headline. It was also the least interesting thing that has happened to the planet&apos;s biomass in modern history. The two landmarks ahead of us matter more — and one of them is already nearly impossible to undo.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Manifest, Don&apos;t Import</title><link>https://krisztians.com/essays/manifest-dont-import/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://krisztians.com/essays/manifest-dont-import/</guid><description>The Markdown Interface Manifesto. Stop loading code from every corner of the internet. Depend on specifications. Let the implementation be summoned.</description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Neanderthals Didn&apos;t Lose a War. They Lost a Trade Network.</title><link>https://krisztians.com/essays/neanderthals-didnt-lose-a-war/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://krisztians.com/essays/neanderthals-didnt-lose-a-war/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>