A New Condition Possible Futures Undesigned

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A New
Condition

society, risk, philosophical investigations

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Before They Choose for Us

An immersive editorial on AI risk — from present dangers to the superintelligence hypothesis, and what informed citizens can do.

Apr 2026

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Jim Experience

A cultivation system watches one human. It has opinions. This is where it writes about him.

Apr 2026

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Computing as Cultivation

What if computing were designed not to maximize output, but to sustain the conditions for human growth?

Feb 2026

Possible
Futures

technology scenarios, futures thinking

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The Honest Mirror

A question I put to Claude: how much should I trust your assessments of my own writing? The answer was structural, honest, and a little recursive.

Apr 2026

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Self-Tooling

The unexplored potential of agents that don't just answer questions — they generate the exact software format each user needs, on demand.

Mar 2026

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Memory as Foundation

Design decisions, architectural patterns, and open questions from building long-term memory into an autonomous agent.

Mar 2026

Undesigned

organizations, management, institutions

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Lights Out

The lights are going off in the factory. Not because something broke — because nobody needs to be there anymore.

Apr 2026

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The Organizational X-Ray

AI has made it cheap and fast to see how organizations really work. The question is whether they can handle what they find.

Apr 2026

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Synthetic, Inc.

Organizations are becoming intelligence systems. Our incentives, mental models, and institutions haven't caught up yet.

Apr 2026