The Philosophy of Future Inevitability
Some changes are coming whether you're ready or not.
This isn't futurism or prediction markets. It's pattern recognition. Certain technological, demographic, and social trends have enough momentum that the question isn't whether they'll happen—it's how you'll navigate them.
AI is one. Institutional collapse is another. The atomization of community, the crisis of meaning, the death of consensus reality. This series examines what's already locked in and what options remain.
Wooden Boats and Strange People: A Brief History of Human Ambition
Why the people who change the world are always a little bit broken.
Hitler, Stalin, Mao: The Competence of Evil
The uncomfortable truth about effective malevolence.
Dulles, the CIA, and the Fentanyl Problem
How institutions create the problems they claim to solve.
80-Year-Old Senators vs 20-Year-Old Billionaires
Power is shifting. The gerontocracy hasn't noticed.
Carl Rogers, AI, and Unconditional Positive Regard
What happens when infinite patience becomes infinitely available.
The Blind Men and the Jumbo Jet
Expertise is getting more specialized as problems get more complex.
The Big Five, AI, and the Jedi Mind Trick
Personality science meets machine persuasion.
AI Slop and People Slop
The median was always mediocre. Now it's obvious.
AI Psychosis and the Solved Life
When the oracle answers everything, what questions remain?
AI Dating and the Facetune Problem
Your future date might not exist yet.
AI Sycophancy and the Flattering Mirror
The danger of machines that always agree with you.
AI Broke English: Delve
How LLMs changed the frequency distribution of human language.
AI and the New Oil Refineries
Data centers are the infrastructure of the next century.
The Dead Internet and AI Bots
The conspiracy theory was directionally correct.
The Sovereign Individual Was Right
A 1997 prediction that keeps getting more accurate.
The End of Dunbar and Micro-Tribes
Social groups are fragmenting below the anthropological minimum.
The Philosophy of Future Inevitability: A Synthesis
Putting it all together. The shape of what's coming.
