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It goes like this: in 1999 the consumer…https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-stranger-who-shines/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:13:06 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-stranger-who-shines/Phanes, the Rebel Archons, and the Fable Genshin Impact Is Quietly Handing to the Westhttps://madkatomega.blog/posts/forking-the-government-taiwans-civic-hackers-and-the-american-case-for-networked-democracy/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:57:28 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/forking-the-government-taiwans-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…https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-sky-is-not-actually-falling/Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:43:46 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-sky-is-not-actually-falling/If you spend any time online right now, you’ve met the genre: the AI doom essay. The headline promises an imminent “spiral out of control.” The prose is furious. The numbers fly by fast enough that…https://madkatomega.blog/posts/superintelligence-will-look-like-a-corporation-not-a-brain/Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:31:12 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/superintelligence-will-look-like-a-corporation-not-a-brain/For a decade, we have told ourselves one story about how machines will become smarter than us. It is a vertical story, and it goes like this. A single, enormous model sits in a data center. It…https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-quiet-revolution/Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:40:53 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-quiet-revolution/There is a particular kind of fatigue that settles over a person who pays attention to American government for long enough. It is not the heat of anger, which burns out, and it is not despair, which…https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-anthropic-standoff-what-happens-when-a-government-can-switch-off-an-ai/Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:53:55 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-anthropic-standoff-what-happens-when-a-government-can-switch-off-an-ai/A calm look at the first time Washington pulled a frontier AI model offline — and the harder questions underneath it.https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-grid-is-the-bottleneck-why-the-ai-boom-is-really-a-steel-and-electricity-story/Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:18:03 +0000https://madkatomega.blog/posts/the-grid-is-the-bottleneck-why-the-ai-boom-is-really-a-steel-and-electricity-story/A couple of years ago, the whole technology world was worried about one thing: chips. If you couldn’t get your hands on the right graphics processors, you were out of the race. Silicon was the prize…