Essays on AI economics, geopolitics, and the future of compute.
July 24, 2026
Human intelligence has always commanded a premium because it was scarce. The person who could calculate faster, diagnose more accurately, write more persuasively, or see patterns others missed had economic value because...
Read moreFebruary 11, 2026
Every intellectual achievement begins with a spark. A stray observation, an irritation with the status quo, a question that arrives uninvited in the shower. What follows the spark is something entirely different: months...
Read moreNovember 3, 2025
The architecture of artificial intelligence is at an inflection point. For years, centralized learning delivered extraordinary results by pooling vast datasets into monolithic training runs that compressed humanity's kno...
Read moreJune 17, 2025
AI plus robotics will not just disrupt labor markets. They will eliminate large categories of human work entirely. When autonomous factories, farms, and mines operate with almost no one in the loop, labor cost for both d...
Read moreDecember 8, 2024
The path to a potential age of abundance will not unfold evenly. It will fracture along existing geopolitical lines. Capitalist societies like the United States face the most severe disruption first. Without mechanisms t...
Read moreApril 21, 2024
There is a pattern in Silicon Valley that deserves more scrutiny than it gets. The same people building systems designed to eliminate human labor at scale will, when pressed on what happens to the displaced, offer exactl...
Read moreSeptember 14, 2023
Current approaches to AGI are fundamentally limited because they separate intelligence from physical consequence. Language models process tokens. Game-playing systems optimize within rule sets. Even advanced robotics typ...
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