book
How Can Odysseus Go Home?
Odysseus spends ten years trying to get home. Nolan’s film suggests the harder journey is becoming Odysseus again, long after war, memory, guilt, and time have made the old life impossible.
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artificial intelligence
The Commons Is Not A Pre-training Subsidy
AI companies have treated the mathematical record as training material, benchmark, and marketing asset. The Leiden Declaration asks a harder question: what happens when systems extract from a public order of knowledge without accepting its standards of attribution, verification, and responsibility?
artificial intelligence
The UBI Math Doesn't Work. The Math Was Always There. Now It's Arriving.
In 2018, I wrote two articles nobody wanted to think about. Eight years later, Elon Musk and OpenAI are proposing solutions. That should worry us more than it reassures us.
artificial intelligence
Cursor Has No Moat. SpaceX Has No Cash. Perfect Match.
SpaceX's $60B Cursor acquisition is a credit card purchase before payday. A breakdown of the real numbers behind the IPO story.
artificial intelligence
Chatting With The Oracle #2: The AI That Doesn’t Know What Time It Is
AI agents are being deployed to make real-time decisions, but they have no reliable sense of when they are. That's not a minor bug. It's a fundamental problem for anything we ask them to do autonomously.
artificial intelligence
Hail Mary: Traveling in the Darkness Lit Up by Stars
And why maybe we’ll be safe even if AI becomes more intelligent
artificial intelligence
The Two and a Half People Who Understood
True understanding between people is rarer than we admit. Most connections are approximations. This is about what it actually takes to be seen, and why that's harder than it sounds, for humans and machines alike.
philosophy
Why Bostrom’s Simulation Argument Isn’t as Strong as It Sounds
So… Are We Really Living in a Simulation?
culture
Hamnet: On Inner Alignment and the Weight of Attention
On Connection, Distance, and Being Seen
tech
A Phone Call at the Edge of the Compute Bubble
A reflection on enterprise AI adoption, risk ownership, and decision paralysis under accelerating technological change
tech
AI Is the Child of Probability, Humans Are Prisoners of Causality
Einstein was wrong. Bohr was right. The universe runs on probability, not cause and effect. We've spent centuries pretending otherwise. Then we accidentally built something that doesn't pretend.
tech
Five Buckets for The Future And The Greatest Negotiation In Human History
The future is not one thing. It collapses into a handful of stable outcomes, and most of them aren't pretty. I reduced it to five buckets. This is not science, or prophecy. It is a framework for paying attention to what's actually being decided while everyone is looking at their phone.