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Wealth Architecture — On the means of life

[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 content: what things motivate us. Then there is the process: how things motivate us. And lastly, we have those things that maintain 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
[marginalium] AI personality extraction from faces (pdf) — 9 Jun 2025
[marginalium] The speed of AI take-off — 8 Jun 2025
[marginalium] How To Do Soul-Craft With State Tools — 6 Jun 2025
[marginalium] Understanding Bayes — 6 Jun 2025
[article] Positive Intelligence pt.III — 30 May 2025
This might be the most comprehensive example of the neuroscience confidence game I’ve ever written about. That and a heavy dose of self-indulgence. Neuroscientific self-help, not so much.
[marginalium] Pitfalls of AI for information gathering — 28 May 2025
[marginalium] SEO for AI — 23 May 2025
[marginalium] Being a bit underemployed — 23 May 2025