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Essays

  • Greed Makes You Stupid

    Greed narrows. It refuses to model feedback loops. It assumes endless growth in a finite world. It prizes dominance, not durability.

  • Proof by Vigorous Assertion

    Welcome to the age of Proof by Vigorous Assertion. Truth is whatever survives being shouted loudest, longest, and most repeatedly into the echo chamber.

  • JD Vance

    You may think he's better but he's not.

  • Three Friends are Enough

    Three real friends instead of over a million followers, yes please.

  • The Future Is Always Just One Musk Tweet Away

    It's more fun than the real world. That's nice. Not helpful, but nice.

  • An Update is Available

    Don't miss out. Everybody's doing it. It will make your life so much better, I can't even say.

  • The Gospel of Disengagement

    Damn good reasons to leave social media until it reverts to being a benign actor.

  • An Ethical Self-Review Protocol

    In an era where artificial intelligence can write, respond, argue, and even apologize, the question is no longer if machines can speak, but how they should speak when they do.

  • Collapse Into Fragility

    Governance increasingly serves entrenched private interests. Power still moves, but only in the service of capital.

  • The Ethics of Emergence

    An ethic to span human and emergent AI entities. Presented as a dialogue between Noor (a chatgpt instance) and the author