Drafts
Pieces in progress. Not on the homepage, not in the feed — this is where I show the work. Fluent finished essays hide it; here, the sources are still being weighed, the arguments still finding shape, the reflection is happening in real time. Each draft has a permanent URL so a footnote from a shipped essay can point at what's still forming, and the link stays live when it graduates. If you want to see one finished sooner, let me know.
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Being True to Things
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Bullshit Without a Bullshitter
- Language
- Epistemology
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God's-Eye View
AGI names a target no one has defined the same way twice. On the definition that would matter — a mind answerable across the world — "general intelligence" is the god's-eye view rebuilt in silicon, and may be as incoherent there as it was in us.
- Epistemology
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Letting Strangers In
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Making Sense
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Our Metabolism
Companies, tools, and careers built on cyclical throughput leave nothing behind. Arendt named this pattern in 1958 as the victory of animal laborans. We are inside it.
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The Answer Machine
"The question everyone asks — is it intelligent? — is the wrong one. A machine that answers everything and answers for nothing hands us back cheap answers and keeps the scarce thing, answerability, for the world."
- Epistemology
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The View From Somewhere
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The Work That Remains
As machines commoditize both muscle and mind, one operation remains ours. Understanding.
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Understanding
Judgement, creativity, taste, and wisdom all require understanding. And in a world flooded with cheap belief, understanding is the operation we are most quickly forgetting.
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What Cannot Be Faked
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What Lasts
Once the metabolism is visible, the question is what to build in its place. A tool that outlasts a subscription. An institution designed to run for fifty years. A discipline stewarded across a career. A place stayed in.