Imperfect notes on an imperfect world
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Too fast, too little
In a prior note I considered the strange formulation of ‘pacing the frontier’ to describe a vague desire by frontier AI labs to move less fast, perhaps:
When someone hears ‘pacing the frontier’, this is much closer to the image they woul...
Unconstrained and unencumbered
The criminal and the hostage
Pace and race
Cog and wheel
Predator and prayer
Masks and malevolence
In conversation with Pete Chambers, Q3 2026
After another extended pause, a new conversation with Pete Chambers, the last being in November 2025. What happened in the intervening months? Quite a bit… I was curious as to what Gemini could offer with generating a timeline for this year...
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Japan-based scholar and writer, exploring where politics, society, and technology meet.
This is a blog about the political present, as well as a practice of thinking by writing. The task is to wake and write until it's time to hit publish. What comes out is wherever it goes. Writing as a process of disciplined letting.
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