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Coordination Without a Pyramid
When AI makes trust between peers cheap, the hierarchy shrinks to a spine that holds the mission, the limits and…
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Two decades of thinking, in order.
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Autonomy at Machine Speed
When we trust a delegate, we hand over autonomy, and with AI agents the hierarchy that manages it moves into…
Cheaper Verification, and More Valuable Trust
AI lowers the cost of checking what happened, and moves the value of trust onto intent and future behavior
Every Project Still Needs Buyers
AI makes ideas, teams and capital easier to find, and leaves the market as the component that is still scarce
Risk Between Ice and Gas
AI shrinks the risks we choose to take and enlarges the ones nobody can measure
A Bit of Chaos You Choose
It is useful training, exploring your limits
Confusion Is the Correct Response
If Karpathy is disoriented, we can accept feeling the same.
What Three Months Look Like Now
Four models made me slides I did not want. The quarter they were describing is the one where the intervals…
Do You Want to Win a Nobel Prize?
New powers require us to radically recalibrate our ambitions