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• Futurism Is Always Extreme

  Aug 25, 2026

  Rigorous thinking about the future produces extreme outcomes.

• A Syncthing and SQLite Gotcha

  Aug 22, 2026

  On the rename system call.

• Our Servants Will Do That For Us

  Aug 19, 2026

  Why the post-scarcity utopia is unlikely.

• AI Alignment as a Thought-Terminating Cliche

  Aug 17, 2026

  Alignment as a rhetorical device.

• Books I Enjoyed In 2026H1

  Aug 11, 2026

  A list.

• The Contracting Circle

  Aug 06, 2026

  Why don't we believe LLMs are people?

• Review: Job-Less Utopia

  Aug 02, 2026

  Review of Marcus Hutter's Job-Less Utopia.

• Mathematics Without Mathematicians

  Aug 01, 2026

  We must know. We shall not know.

• When The Future Doesn’t Need Us

  Jul 27, 2026

  What does the world look like when AI outcompetes humans?

• No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass

  Jun 24, 2026

  Capital won't save you from disempowerment.

• On Vulgar Materialism

  Jun 20, 2026

  Or, sufficiently advanced cynicism is indistinguishable from naïveté.

• Human Routers of Machine Words

  Jun 12, 2026

  On people who use AI to think.

• How To Read More

  Jun 03, 2026

  How text can outcompete the screen.

• Human Bottlenecks

  May 17, 2026

  Why AI won't augment human capabilities much.

• The Applicability of Spaced Repetition

  May 16, 2026

  On factual vs. conceptual knowledge.

• Notes on the Hantavirus Outbreak

  May 07, 2026

  Cruise ships are bad for the world.

• Some Data Should Be Code

  Jan 30, 2026

  On Make, CloudFormation, and GitHub Actions.

• Letting Claude Play Text Adventures

  Jan 11, 2026

  Experiments in cognitive architecture.

• There Is No New Aesthetics

  Jan 04, 2026

  On the exhaustion of man.

• 1Password Dependency Breaks Syntax Highlighting

  Dec 26, 2025

  Why does a password manager need a syntax highlighter?