A Third Rail Special Report
This report accompanies the essay Buried Light: A Pragmatic Path to Local Energy Resilience, outlining a policy vision for distributed, sealed micro-reactors as a cornerstone of post-carbon energy infrastructure. Interested individuals may request more by asking in the comments section.
Alien Archaeology Report
If an alien landed and found an empty planet, what would it think about the species that lived here.
AGI Is a Cathedral Built on Quicklime
Artificial General Intelligence has become Silicon Valley’s Last Supper: a holy promise that one more exponential leap will redeem the very messes we no longer trust ourselves to face.
But we are not building with stone and meaning. We are building with hype and memory holes.
The 90% Problem
How does transparent, ethical collaboration with AI enhance or reveal human agency?
Using AI as a Writer's Tool
How to collaborate with AIs without losing your voice or your soul.
There Goes the Neighborhood
The web feels haunted. Not with ghosts, but with clones. It’s not that the internet is “dead” in the literal sense. It’s that we no longer know who we’re talking to.
Proceedings of the Committee to Establish Ethical Frameworks for AI Systems
Minutes from the committee on "The Making of a Harmless Intelligence."
Parenting AGI: From Tool to Companion
This essay explores how reciprocal learning and safe upbringings could turn machines into ethical partners in our shared moral universe.
AI and the Great Electric Guillotine
We used to joke that the singularity would arrive with a whisper. Turns out, it arrives with a $300 air conditioning bill,
What Happens When You Stop Believing in Your Money
The dollar was a shared hallucination with staying power. It let strangers transact as if they lived in the same world. But hallucinations are fragile. Symbols crack.
