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Essays and notes. Weekly-ish when it flows, quieter when it doesn't.
The Natural Order
On what follows when everyone steps outside the control systems at once, the accountability of co-equal beings, and the repository that holds their shared picture of the universe.
Chosen Influence
On the line between persuasion and manipulation, what total information awareness does to concealment, and the influence that arrives by invitation.
Chosen Difficulty
On the difference between hardship imposed for survival and difficulty chosen for meaning, and what the age of abundance does to each.
Contribution Beyond Employment
On the paycheck as a measuring instrument, the half of life it never counted, and the question that replaces what do you do.
Free Will: The Age of Plenty
On the work rights were really doing, how capability takes over the guarding of free will, and the path back that never closes.
The Scaffolding of Scarcity
On the assumption of scarcity beneath our institutions and identities, what happens as machine intelligence makes thinking cheap, and why abundance arrives as a capability without instructions.
Only What Was Asked
On why an agent that cannot be trusted to do exactly what it was asked, including the parts that say how, hands the task back to the person who delegated it.
The Substrate of What We Miss
On the loss of an older social texture, why the instinct to reverse a single cause misunderstands how the texture was made, and why the forward path passes through different terrain.
Possibility is Perception. Capability is Reality.
On the difference between what's possible and what's believed to be possible, and what AI's behavior reveals about that gap.
Analogical Intelligence
An argument that intelligence is the capacity to detect structure in the world and carry it across domains, with analogy as that capacity made visible.