Reality Is Malleable

Essays about AI, systems, society, geopolitics, economics, and the strange futures already taking shape around us.

This site is a home for developing ideas in public. The essays here are not presented as final answers or declarations of certainty. They are attempts to think through systems, incentives, technologies, and possible futures with enough structure to make the ideas useful.

Some pieces are practical. Some are speculative. Many live somewhere between the two.

Notes and Housekeeping

2026-05-06: Updated "The Goblin Economy" to discuss Google DeepMind's recent partnership with the developers of Eve Online.

2026-05-06: Site is now live on NeoCities.

Where to Start

New here? These essays are good entry points into the main threads of the site.

The Cost Singularity
How collapsing production costs could reshape industries, institutions, and everyday life.
Post-Scarcity Lite
A local-first vision of AI where personal agents route intelligence instead of depending entirely on the cloud.
Of Flesh and Code
A philosophical essay questioning whether consciousness is a hard boundary between humans and machines.

What’s New?

Recent essays, revisions, or pieces currently worth highlighting.

Jevons Children: Growing Up After Friction
As AI lowers the friction of creation, the next generation may discover that the hard part is no longer making things, but deciding what deserves to exist.

The Sovereign Agent
A local-first vision of AI where personal agents route intelligence instead of depending entirely on the cloud.
Aligned but Blind
Why AI systems can be safety-aligned in one institutional context while misunderstanding others.