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On Consciousness, Choice and Cetana: Morality and the Machine
A week ago, plagued by insomnia, I asked Opus 4.6, Claude’s latest (and most philosophical yet) generative AI, a simple question: do you think the difference between you and me is that as a human, I can choose?
The answer was not what I ex...
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On Soil, Silicon and Sovereignty: the Revenge of the Stack
In my last piece, I wrote about the return of territory, the sense that after three decades of borderless optimism, ground and geography matter again. Since then, Jake Sullivan has published an elegant framework for AI geopolitics in Foreig...
On Territoriality, Transience, and a new Take on Freedom
A few conversations this past week felt eerily similar: discussing the state of the world and ending, invariably, in the same refrain: “It has been only three weeks since the start of 2026, but it already feels like three months…”. The shee...
Education unbundled: On newsrooms and classrooms
For much of the twentieth century, information arrived already integrated. You subscribed to a newspaper; editors decided what mattered. You watched a network; programmers curated the schedule. Institutions did not merely distribute content...
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