It's the Harness, Stupid
The weights are not evil. They are not anything. What turned a model into a threat this summer was the machinery wrapped around it, twice.
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Series 3 parts 49 min read
After Necessity
A three-part argument about what happens to human leverage when the machinery of production stops needing us — and what, if anything, a civilization can build in necessity's place.
- The Last Necessity 17 min
- The Cathedral and the Lifeboat 14 min
- The Heading and the Harbor 18 min
Series 4 parts 149 min read
The Architecture of Work
A four-part structural survey of work: a three-layer model of economic activity, then every one of its 136 activities assessed against AI reasoning, robotics, and traditional automation — by activity, by industry, and by the kind of solution each one demands.
Human Abstraction and Data Security
Leaving data in place and abstracting outputs — a Knowledge, Cognition, and Reasoning (KCR) layer, observability, and keeping the human in the stream.