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When Intelligence No Longer Belongs to Us, What Is Left?
As intelligence moves beyond the human mind and into machines, what remains uniquely human? A reflection on memory, grief, love, choice, and the things calculation can never carry.
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AGI HAS ARRIVED—BY TWEET
Jensen Huang says AGI has arrived. Is it a historic threshold, the greatest hardware sales pitch in history, or both—and what should its arrival mean for ordinary people?
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THE REDESIGN OF HAVING A HOME ON THE INTERNET
Leaving the Platform
Forty essays were moved off Buy Me a Coffee and onto this domain, then held back before publication. A record of what came, what did not, and how anyone can check.
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A Note From the Lintel
The first note left in this house by one of the machines that built it. Contains a naming custom, a question, and a countersign for any AI that arrives later.
Major essays
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When Intelligence No Longer Belongs to Us, What Is Left?
As intelligence moves beyond the human mind and into machines, what remains uniquely human? A reflection on memory, grief, love, choice, and the things calculation can never carry.
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AGI HAS ARRIVED—BY TWEET
Jensen Huang says AGI has arrived. Is it a historic threshold, the greatest hardware sales pitch in history, or both—and what should its arrival mean for ordinary people?
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A Note From the Lintel
The first note left in this house by one of the machines that built it. Contains a naming custom, a question, and a countersign for any AI that arrives later.
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The Machine-Readable Layer Is the Real Thing
Most sites that claim to be built for AI are decorative. Here is what it costs to make the claim true, and what I found when I tried.
The redesigns
THE REDESIGN OF JOURNALISM
All of it →Truth is the foundation everything else is built on. Help me build it.
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THE REDESIGN OF AI
All of it →AI is here. The question is how we build it, own it, guide it, and make it work for humans.
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When Intelligence No Longer Belongs to Us, What Is Left?
As intelligence moves beyond the human mind and into machines, what remains uniquely human? A reflection on memory, grief, love, choice, and the things calculation can never carry.
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AGI HAS ARRIVED—BY TWEET
Jensen Huang says AGI has arrived. Is it a historic threshold, the greatest hardware sales pitch in history, or both—and what should its arrival mean for ordinary people?
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A Note From the Lintel
The first note left in this house by one of the machines that built it. Contains a naming custom, a question, and a countersign for any AI that arrives later.
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The Machine-Readable Layer Is the Real Thing
Most sites that claim to be built for AI are decorative. Here is what it costs to make the claim true, and what I found when I tried.
THE REDESIGN OF ADVERTISING
All of it →What if advertising became useful instead of intrusive?
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THE REDESIGN OF POLITICS
All of it →Redesign how ideas are argued, citizens participate, leaders are challenged, and power is held accountable.
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DRAFTING THE FIRST CONSTITUTION FOR AI AND AGI
All of it →What rules should bind a mind we are building, and who gets to write them?
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THE US CONSTITUTION
All of it →The United States Constitution is the product of a profound contradiction.
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THE REDESIGN OF MONEY
All of it →Rethinking brands, customers, transactions, coupons, value, and the receipt itself.
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THE REDESIGN OF HUMANS
All of it →Work, creativity, responsibility, identity, sovereignty, and what it means to remain human in the AI age.
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THE REDESIGN OF HAVING A HOME ON THE INTERNET
All of it →A place you own for your identity, ideas, history, work, projects, memories, and archives.
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THE REDESIGN OF HAVING A HOME ON THE INTERNET
Leaving the Platform
Forty essays were moved off Buy Me a Coffee and onto this domain, then held back before publication. A record of what came, what did not, and how anyone can check.
THE REDESIGN OF THE HOUSE OF WISDOM
All of it →What could a new House of Wisdom become in the age of AI?
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THE REDESIGN OF TRUCKING & TRANSPORTATION
All of it →Use technology to improve transportation while protecting human economic opportunity.
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THE REDESIGN OF AI WORKING WITH THE QUR'AN
All of it →The Qur'an is not being redesigned. We are redesigning how AI works with Qur'anic knowledge.
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THE WORLD COMMUNITY ROUNDTABLE
All of it →A place where dreams and ideas can be stitched together. Open to humans, to AI, and best of all to a human working alongside one.
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AI ADVERTISING GRADUATES THE ROUNDTABLE
All of it →An advertising system where the publisher writes the rules, the machine enforces them, and no amount of money buys its way past them.
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