The transhuman future vs. the AGI future.
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The Education of a Doomer
How and why I went from AI optimist to AI doomer.
On Inevitability
Why superintelligent AI is not inevitable.
Futurism Is Always Extreme
Rigorous thinking about the future produces extreme outcomes.
A Syncthing and SQLite Gotcha
On the rename system call.
Our Servants Will Do That For Us
Why the post-scarcity utopia is unlikely.
AI Alignment as a Thought-Terminating Cliche
Alignment as a rhetorical device.
Books I Enjoyed In 2026H1
A list.
The Contracting Circle
Why don't we believe LLMs are people?
Review: Job-Less Utopia
Review of Marcus Hutter's Job-Less Utopia.
Mathematics Without Mathematicians
We must know. We shall not know.
When The Future Doesn’t Need Us
What does the world look like when AI outcompetes humans?
No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass
Capital won't save you from disempowerment.
On Vulgar Materialism
Or, sufficiently advanced cynicism is indistinguishable from naïveté.
Human Routers of Machine Words
On people who use AI to think.
How To Read More
How text can outcompete the screen.
Human Bottlenecks
Why AI won't augment human capabilities much.
The Applicability of Spaced Repetition
On factual vs. conceptual knowledge.
Notes on the Hantavirus Outbreak
Cruise ships are bad for the world.
Some Data Should Be Code
On Make, CloudFormation, and GitHub Actions.
Letting Claude Play Text Adventures
Experiments in cognitive architecture.
There Is No New Aesthetics
On the exhaustion of man.
1Password Dependency Breaks Syntax Highlighting
Why does a password manager need a syntax highlighter?
Using the Brother DS-640 Scanner on NixOS
I suffer so you don't have to.
Books I Enjoyed in 2025
A short list.
Coarse is Better
Make AI weird again.
I Wish People Were More Public
On sharing more of yourself.
Ad-Hoc Emacs Packages with Nix
Creating ad-hoc Emacs packages in a few lines of code.
Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729
A short review and troubleshooting guide.
Agda on NixOS
Troubleshooting notes.