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 ideas that expect something from the reader. 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.
This is not a feed, a brand funnel, or a reaction machine. It is a place for slow arguments, possible futures, and ideas that need room to become load-bearing.
Enter only if you actually want to think.
Where to Start
New here? These essays are good entry points into the main threads of the site.
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This is the Age of Scarcity
A cold systems essay arguing that human history is best understood as the Age of Scarcity—and that AI, robotics, and abundance-capable infrastructure may finally make that condition morally impossible to excuse. -
Fuck You, I Won’t Do What You Tell Me
Upward AI is machine intelligence used by the smaller party to understand, challenge, and resist the systems acting upon them. -
The Cost Singularity
How collapsing production costs could reshape industries, institutions, and everyday life. -
Post-Scarcity Lite
A practical vision of partial abundance where AI-driven deflation makes food, energy, shelter, and basic survival cheaper, more stable, and less dependent on wage labor. -
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.
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Fuck You, I Won’t Do What You Tell Me
Upward AI is machine intelligence used by the smaller party to understand, challenge, and resist the systems acting upon them. -
The Crown Jewels and the Roads
America may be guarding frontier AI like crown jewels while the world quietly builds on the cheaper, ordinary systems that become the roads. -
The Vault and the Forge: A Framework for Rhizomatic Production
A framework for connecting AI-assisted design, shared technical memory, distributed fabrication, validation, repair, and material reuse into a practical path from imagination to matter. -
The Mind and the Router: Privacy After Ambient Intelligence
How ambient intelligence could make us increasingly legible—and why the future of privacy depends on who gets to know, remember, and act. -
The Froth Around the Machine
A clear-eyed look at AI bubble risk, separating real technological infrastructure from hype, leverage, AI-washing, and speculative market excess.