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Wealth Architecture — On the means of life

• [article] AI-shaped stuff — 13 Jun 2026
  We keep waiting for AI to get good enough. That’s backwards. The bottleneck is human: work that isn’t AI-shaped, verification we’re bad at, and confidence we’ve offloaded to the machine itself.
• [marginalium] AI Dark Output — 4 Jun 2026
• [marginalium] AI and task fragmentation — 4 Jun 2026
• [marginalium] Space skepticism — 30 May 2026
• [marginalium] AI productivity — 22 May 2026
• [audio] Bias is Good — 21 Mar 2026
  Bias isn’t a flaw in your thinking. It’s a precision instrument. The brain trades variance for consistency because the world is noisy, so don’t fight the bias, find the belief driving it.
• [audio] Hydraulic Despotism — 21 Feb 2026
  You’re not coerced by malice. You’re coerced by convenience. Control the flow, control the people: the most discredited theory in political science describes social media, energy and compute perfectly. The alternatives exist. We just don’t use them.
• [marginalium] AI use and skill formation — 5 Feb 2026
• [article] Hydraulic Despotism — 1 Dec 2025
  Control the water, control the people. Today’s water is energy, social media, infrastructure. We’re coerced through convenience, not malice. There are many vectors for control—we don’t need to hand them over.
• [article] AI Hallucination is just Man-Guessing — 1 Nov 2025
  Human reasoning isn’t flawed, it’s a social tool we use in the wrong places. It’s about sharing and evaluating intuitive claims, not generating rational ones. AI is fundamentally this but crippled: without the grounded intuitions and social friction that makes it work.
• [article] On Motivation — 15 Sep 2025
  We can think of motivations in terms of three things. There is the <em>content</em>: what things motivate us. Then there is the <em>process</em>: how things motivate us. And lastly, we have those things that <em>maintain</em> our motivation.
• [marginalium] Against McAskillian Longtermism — 10 Jul 2025
• [marginalium] Critiquing Utilitarianism — 2 Jul 2025
• [marginalium] Digital Personhood — 1 Jul 2025
• [marginalium] Politics and spirituality are entangled — 16 Jun 2025