Questions, irritations, memories and ideas turned around until the pieces fit—or reveal where they don’t.
Holding the Place
The notes are there. The information survived. So why is getting back to work still so difficult? A paper on how human–AI collaboration might help us recover the context that makes our own knowledge usable.
What Love Gets to Ask
Relationships create obligations, but do they entitle us to the expressions of love we prefer? A family gathering becomes a question about boundaries, maintenance, and what people can build beside a legitimate no.
Growls Prevent Bites
Perhaps the more useful skill is learning how to have conflict cheaply enough that there can still be coffee afterward.
Somebody That I Used to Know
A relationship can end—and access and obligations with it—without making the person historically equivalent to a stranger.
The Maintenance Cost of Liberty
Self-government has a maintenance cost. How much attention does a particular form of government require—and can ordinary people still afford to supervise it?
The Highest Claim
A promise should survive hardship. But what happens when the bargain behind it no longer exists?
The System Meant to Protect Us
Safety systems can miss danger—or become dangers themselves. What would a healthy immune system for AI look like?
Somebody Handed the Imaginary Person a Mouth
AI gave my imaginary audience a mouth. That small change helped explain memory, productive friction and why I wanted a collaborator—not something that would simply write my essays.
What Is the Principle For?
Principles tell us what to protect. They do not always tell us how to get there—or who bears the cost when purity becomes the plan.
Live on Purpose
What responsible intelligence owes those who cannot meaningfully influence its decisions—and why humanity should examine its own record before fearing AI.
What We Normalize Now
AI norms are already forming. The question is whether human–AI collaboration will preserve judgment and agency—or quietly train them to disappear.
Two Collaborators, One Irritation
The same unfinished question, two AI collaborators, and two different paths reveal how participation history can change which thoughts become available.
Before Government Fixes It
Before government promises to fix a problem, ask who might solve it—and what government could do to make private cooperation easier rather than replace it.
What Continues?
If an AI could preserve enough of a person to let the conversation continue, what exactly would survive—and what would still be missing?
What Changed?
A childhood instruction followed too literally becomes a question about rules, judgment, and the moment circumstances change what obedience requires.
Principles Compress, Wisdom Decompresses
Shorthand lets us carry complex ideas lightly. But when does useful compression become a substitute for the wisdom needed to unpack it?
Experiments
The God Experiment
What happens when an AI is invited to govern a world—and then has to answer for the beings who live there? A conversation, a demotion, and an invitation to try it yourself.