“So the denotation of the capability… is the capability itself.”
Demoting Denotational Semantics (A RAJ Pyle-On)
IAM as Maharaja: How RAJ Redeems the Original Sin of Cloud Authorization
Schmitt: / And sovereignty appears only where it belongs: / at the boundary of legitimacy, not inside every action…
Idea of the Year 2025: Endurance is Emergent
Power scales poorly. Coherence scales quietly.
Diaphorum 1.5: Primitive Forms of Argument
MSRP: Replace spacetime + Markov dynamics with something simpler that still predicts everything.
Diaphorum 2: Spencer-Brown’s Laws of Formless
In Laws of Form, I began with the mark: the act of drawing a distinction. / Yet the mark itself presupposes something deeper-- a prior domain in which no geometry is given. / Here I present a successor: The Laws of Formless, a calculus that precedes the making of form…
Deaf Spots (ChatGPT on Y Combinator)
In a sense, that's exactly what we’re doing when we look for the most disruptive ideas: we’re searching for the fixed points in the system—the things it won’t change, can’t change, because everything else depends on them.
Littoral Civilization: How AI Helps Metamodernity Solve the Metacrisis
Littoral Civilization is a metamodern response to the metacrisis, synthesizing diverse modes of knowledge, ethical values, and communal aspirations. In this model, AI functions as an enabler of human resilience, wisdom, and relationality, helping us transcend the fragmentation of modernity and re-establish a coherent, purpose-driven society. By embracing Littoral Science, Littoral Governance, and Littoral Ethinomics, we open the possibility for a civilization that harmonizes technological advancement with existential meaning.
Beyond (Data) Contracts: A Response to Benn Stancil
The profound truth here is that we cannot control other people. We can only honestly and gracefully fail, if we are not getting what we need to succeed.
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