Large institutional systems do not merely maintain narratives about what they are doing or why they are doing it. They stabilise meta-procedures: how statements are produced, validated, circulated, and sanctioned, because at scale the reasons matter less than the repeatability of the process. These methods become the true object of protection because they allow coordination […]
We learn to navigate the world by drawing lines through it. Self and other. Mind and world. Human and machine. These distinctions help us function, the way handrails help us walk down unfamiliar stairs. They stabilise action and expectation. But they are not where reality begins. They are not built into the fabric of existence. […]
We are likely worrying about the wrong thing. The danger is not that AI amplifies stupidity, volatility, selfishness, or ideological corruption. The danger is the speed of that amplification, the smoothness with which it integrates into ordinary life, and the ease with which this acceleration is framed as inevitable. It is not inevitable. But velocity […]
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