KILL YOUR DARLINGS
A migration between old and new civilisations
Culture
The Cutting Floor.
Notes, fragments, and signals from a world entering maintenance.
Recent essays
30 of 71The Race After AGI
Two machine republics—and everyone else
What Became of the Asian Century?
How China Changed the Price of Modernity
Our oldest technologies
New intelligence may not require entirely new wisdom.
A Wallet Is Not Sovereignty. Continuity Is.
The machine economy is acquiring metabolism, memory and kill switches before we have decided what kind of actors its machines are.
Who Owns What China Builds?
Old China Borrowed From the Household
Something to Lose
The machine may acquire an outside before it acquires an inside
When the Ladders Start Building One Another
Why do some economies suddenly seem to become good at many things at once?
The Petro-Compute Dollar
America may lose the rent and keep the currency
China Outside China
Who gets to build the Chinese world after the rise?
When Failure Becomes a Business Model
Who owns what replaces government?
Does the sea know my name?
Five imagined rounds with Ross Douthat, David Zindell, Kazu and Zhuangzi
How Civilizations Digest the Future
Homer, Buddhism, Japan, and the strange forms born from cheap intelligence
The Machine Answered Too Easily
A savage dialogue before the Second Axial Age
The human does not disappear
The Second Axial Age could therefore be post-anthropocentric without being anti-human.
Tokens as Industrial Energy
When intelligence becomes cheap enough to waste
机器将门塔特贬为廉价品
《沙丘》、人工智能，一场争夺人类基底的战争
The Machine Made Mentats Cheap
Dune, AI, and the war over the human substrate
The Counterrevolution Will Be Personalized
AI, private meaning, and the strange desire for the end of the public
The Interval
America finds a scarce thing.
Feminism Won the Office. Tech Bros Won the Future.
The first industrial machine needed everyone.
Microseason Hawks Learn to fly 鹰始挚
Or maybe sunbirds
The Person Comes Apart
Machines, Copies, Hybrids and Obligation Before Ontology
The City Has Landlords
What The mind becomes a city may be getting wrong
The Mind Becomes a City
Before the Second Axial Age
The artificial middle
How AI Makes Brazilisation Work
The Machine Interregnum
The old compact is falling away. The successor has not arrived.
机器时代的空位期
旧的社会契约正在瓦解，新秩序迟迟未能成型。
War / mobilisation / stacks
Random notes
The K Is Not the Problem
We keep asking whether society is becoming K-shaped.