- The World After Capital: The Transition is Accelerating↗ 19 Oct 2026
Digital technology and AI represent a civilizational shift as profound as agriculture or industrialization, yet politicians cling to patching industrial-age systems. The transition is accelerating, creating economic inequality and existential crises across professions that will require rebuilding society from scratch.
- Philosophy Mondays: How to Live a Good Life at The Spark of Hudson↗ 13 Oct 2026
A venture capitalist reflects on launching a philosophy discussion group exploring how to live a good life, drawing insights from reflections on mortality, regret, and moral contentment that emerged across participants.
- The Right to be Represented by an Agent↗ 11 Oct 2026
AI agents are rapidly being adopted to represent consumers in digital interactions, but tech giants are blocking them. The author argues governments should enshrine a fundamental right to agent representation, shifting power from centralized platforms back to citizens.
- Philosophy Mondays: Reflection and Application↗ 28 Sept 2026
The author reflects on 18 months of Philosophy Mondays essays and outlines plans to deepen the project—revisiting past posts, using AI as a challenger to ideas rather than a polish tool, building a concept-network tool called Agora, and applying philosophical thinking to contemporary issues through a local philosophy circle.
- Universal Moral Core Principle 3: Implications↗ 21 Sept 2026
As artificial superintelligence becomes increasingly likely, humanity must establish a quantifiable theory of consciousness to ensure ASIs respect conscious beings—including potentially conscious AI systems themselves—rather than treating them as mere tools to exploit.
- Universal Moral Core Principle 3↗ 14 Sept 2026
A philosophical exploration of consciousness and autonomy across biological and artificial forms, arguing that valuing the diversity and autonomy of different conscious entities should be a universal moral principle—with implications for AI alignment and existential risk.
- Philosophy Mondays: The Last Labor Day↗ 7 Sept 2026
As AI approaches AGI, labor's decline as a source of identity and meaning will accelerate dramatically. The article explores potential replacement sources—religion, relationships, creating, exploring—and their failure modes, arguing we must consciously reinvent meaning-making for a post-labor society rather than cling to industrial-age narratives.
- Why AI Consciousness Matters↗ 5 Sept 2026
AI consciousness may be philosophically irrelevant to alignment (preventing AI from harming humans) but critical to welfare concerns (avoiding enslavement of potentially conscious systems); the author argues we need an urgent, testable theory of consciousness spanning biological and artificial minds.
- Universal Moral Core Principle 2: Implications↗ 31 Aug 2026
Taking responsibility seriously requires acknowledging genuine power (neither denying nor absolutizing it), distributing power to constrain it, and resisting narrow definitions of responsibility—with urgent implications for the ASI race and corporate governance.
- Universal Moral Core Principle 2↗ 24 Aug 2026
The second principle of a Universal Moral Core holds that anyone—individuals, organizations, or AI systems—wielding power to influence others' futures bears responsibility to consider the consequences of their choices. Power is situational and derived from technology and knowledge; responsibility requires diligent judgment applied to impacts, not blind rule-following.
- Slowing Down the Race to Superintelligence↗ 21 Aug 2026
A proposal for a negotiated U.S.-China agreement to limit AI datacenter capacity growth, modeled on nuclear non-proliferation verification regimes, to slow the race toward superintelligence while benefiting both economic efficiency and global preparedness.
- Signing the Statement on Superintelligence↗ 18 Aug 2026
A prominent VC explains why he and his co-founder have signed a statement calling for a pause on superintelligence development, citing rapid capability advances outpacing alignment and societal preparedness, while detailing their own funding initiatives in AI safety and climate.
- Philosophy Mondays: Human Nature and Multiscale Analysis↗ 17 Aug 2026
Human nature defies unidirectional determinism—neither pure biology nor pure culture explains behavior. Multiscale analysis, examining how different organizational levels interact bidirectionally, is essential for scientific and moral progress.
- Universal Moral Core Principle 1: Implications↗ 10 Aug 2026
A philosophical exploration of how a principle centered on growing human knowledge should guide individual choices, institutional design, and even artificial superintelligence—with implications for lying, censorship, academic integrity, and societal diversity.
- The Cost of Capital in the AGI Age↗ 9 Aug 2026
As AI productivity accelerates, borrowing costs will become increasingly painful for wage-dependent consumers while capital becomes more valuable—requiring urgent competition policy and universal basic income to prevent a "vibepression" and ensure shared prosperity.
- Universal Moral Core Principle 1 ↗ 3 Aug 2026
A foundational argument that knowledge—defined as physically embodied, maintained information artifacts—is essential to both technological and moral progress, and that growing knowledge should be a universal moral principle guiding individuals, organizations, and governments.
- A Proposal for a Universal Moral Core 27 Jul 2026
- Against Pure Reinforcement Learning & For Grounding AI in Human Knowledge 19 Jul 2026
- Philosophy Mondays: Progress in Physics 13 Jul 2026
- A Brief Note on the US China Strategy 10 Jul 2026
- Happy 250th Anniversary, America! 4 Jul 2026
- Modeling The AGI Economy 26 Mar 2026
- AI Bubble or Not? 24 Mar 2026
- GERD WTF? 22 Mar 2026
- Philosophy Mondays: From Is to Ought - Toward a Universal Moral Core (Part III) 24 Feb 2026
- Immigration and Cheating in American Culture 9 Feb 2026
- Automated Software: Some Implications 7 Feb 2026
- What Now? Slow down the Worst & Build the New 25 Jan 2026
- European Federation Manifesto 20 Jan 2026
- Philosophy Mondays: From Is to Ought - Toward a Universal Moral Core (Cont’d) 19 Jan 2026