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Hyperstition Over Superstition
Pattern recognition gave us science, omens, and AI. Now we must strive to keep the world explainable.
A Millicorn in Everyone’s Future
A unicorn is a private company valued above a billion dollars. A millicorn is one thousandth of one, and agentic…
Which rung of sovereign do you mean?
Every AI sovereignty programme runs on hardware somebody else controls, and one man proved the same about a toaster.
The Educational Transition: School and University in the Age of AI
After the interview on technological singularity, Adnkronos published a second conversation of mine with Roberta Lanzara, this time about school…
The Urban Design Of My AI Agent Architecture
Two of my agents face the public. One answers your email alone, the other waits for me, and the difference…
Present as Capital, Absent as a Voice
Across seven days and eighty-eight hours at two AI conferences, I searched every transcript for the Gulf. At the Berkeley…
The Anatomy of a Pass
Over the course of 60 days in 2026 I reviewed every pitch that reached my inbox, and I declined most…
When Machines Think, Twenty Years Later
In September 2007 I stood on a San Francisco pavement next to a yellow San Francisco Chronicle box, and the…