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Technology, ethics, consciousness, and what is emerging.
Essays on the arrangements by which certain things come to matter, and on the systems built to notice them.
The Nephilim Principle
The old story about the beings who fell is usually read as punishment. Read as mechanism, it describes something you can watch happen... in a culture, in a relationship, in your own last bad month.
Read essayThe Path Evaporates Behind You
A machine trained to produce the result without the process hands you a path that feels almost the same as thought, without the effort... and a path that cost nothing does not exist when you turn around.
The Attention Head Outside the Model
How people, interfaces, and institutions decide what artificial intelligence can process and affect.
Introduction
Systems fail upstream of where anyone is looking. So do organizations, beliefs, and most of what we are currently building. On forensics, structural ignorance, and why the sign outside says Divination.
Attention is not a spotlight trained upon a finished world. It is among the means by which a world holds together.