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You will be left to fend for yourself
You will be left to fend for yourself.
Not straight away. Not immediately.
But sooner or later, you will be your own last line of defense.
It may come through death or estrangement from loved ones, critical illness in yourself or your...
You're not ready for how AI will refactor society
I have bad news, and I have worse news.
The bad news is that we’re heading for techno-feudalism.
The worse news is that this outcome is all but guaranteed, in a pattern that you could call “overdetermined” or “inevitable.”
Yuval Noah...
The Enshittification of AI Chatbots: A First Analysis
What’s structurally different about AI — and how those differences shape the incentive gradients pulling every frontier chatbot in the same direction.
When Anthropic released Opus 4.7 earlier this month, it landed with the usual benchmar...
AI misinformation
The Maps Have Stopped Tracking the Territory
Two narratives dominate coverage of AI right now, and both are wrong in ways that are easy to verify. The first says we’re in a bubble — that the data center buildout is a tulip craze with bet...
How I cope with AI anxiety
How I Cope With AI FOMO
There’s a particular dread that hits when I’m deep in AI news at eleven at night. Someone I’ve never heard of just raised forty million dollars. Someone else pivoted their channel six months ago and now has a mill...
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