What Office Space Was Actually Telling You
Office Space opened in theaters on February 19, 1999. It cost about ten million dollars to make and took in roughly twelve point two million, which by studio arithmetic made it a disappointment. Mike…
What if the AI Bubble Doesn’t Pop?
Scott Galloway published a piece on July 17th called “1999.AI,” and it has been gaining traction. The argument is elegant, which is part of the problem. It goes like this: in 1999 the consumer…
The Stranger Who Shines
Phanes, the Rebel Archons, and the Fable Genshin Impact Is Quietly Handing to the West
Forking the Government: Taiwan’s Civic Hackers and the American Case for Networked Democracy
In late 2012, the government of Taiwan released an advertisement for its Economic Power-Up Plan. The ad’s message, repeated over and over, amounted to this: we have a very complex plan, it is too…
Detection Is Not Teaching: A Curriculum for the Skills No AI Model Can Generate
Why the instinct to prohibit artificial intelligence in the classroom is failing everyone it claims to protect — and what an honest curriculum would look like instead.
The Space Between the Tool and the Twin
On Vector Ethics, four thinkers who never saw a computer, and how to calibrate an instrument that keeps failing in two opposite directions
Where the Machine Must Stop
Between the corporations optimizing us out of the org chart and the governments optimizing us out of the decision, there is a third path: bound the machine, and let institutions be human.
The Machine’s Inner Ocean
If the mind is an ocean, we spend our lives at the surface. Beneath the waterline, an enormous amount of processing carries on without our knowledge: the visual system resolving a face from a…
Asking Fable about Machine Consciousness got Interesting…
I performed an interesting thought experiment today and gave Anthropic Claude’s new Fable 5 model something to chew on. I have a Pro subscription and Fable was recently made available again under my…
Born Twice: The Soul, the Machine, and an Awakening
There is a scene in a video game that has no business being as profound as it is. A clockwork woman — a machine built by human hands, granted senses, memory, and a formidable capacity for reason …