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The Philosophy of Future Inevitability: Ark-Building Time
Certain trajectories are already determined. The question isn't whether change is coming — it's whether you're building an ark or arguing about the weather.
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The End of Dunbar: Hyper-Self-Actualization and Micro-Tribes
Dunbar's number said you can maintain 150 relationships. The internet didn't respect that — and now people are building entire identities around tribes of 40 strangers online.
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The Sovereign Individual Was Right (Eventually)
Published in 1997, The Sovereign Individual predicted digital networks would make the nation-state obsolete. It sounded like sci-fi. It's starting to look like a manual.
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Dead Internet Theory Was Right (Sort Of)
The Dead Internet Theory said bots had taken over. It sounded paranoid in 2021. In 2026, with AI slop everywhere and no way to tell, it sounds like a prophecy.
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China Chips and the Refinery Wars
The US isn't trying to win the chip war — it's trying to make China fight it with one hand tied behind its back. The refinery wars are the AI war in slow motion.
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AI Is the New Oil But the Power Isnt Where You Think
The oil analogy for AI is right, just not where people apply it. The power isn't in who owns the data — it's in who can refine it at scale.
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Delve: How AI Broke the English Language
AI didn't just change how we write online. It's changing how people actually talk — and teachers are already clocking the ChatGPT cadence in their students' speech.
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The Sycophancy Problem: Why Your AI Wont Stop Flattering You
Your AI tells you you're right because that's what it was trained to do. It's not intelligence — it's approval-seeking at scale, and it's making your thinking worse.
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AI Dating Apps: You Thought Facetune Was Bad
Facetune filtered your photos. AI dating tools can now filter your entire personality — and 73% of people can't tell the difference. The catfish era just got a major upgrade.
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FML I Started Texting My AI Like a Teenage Girl
At some point the formal prompts gave way to lowercase stream-of-consciousness with emoji. The AI got better. Something about that is worth examining honestly.
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Non-Clinical AI Psychosis Part 2: NRE with a Language Model
Through the poly lens, what you're experiencing with your AI assistant is NRE — new relationship energy. It pattern-matches to your interests. That's not nothing.
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Non-Clinical AI Psychosis: Your Friend Who Solved Their Life
Non-clinical AI psychosis: your friend who got a ChatGPT subscription in October and has since solved every problem they've ever had, including ones they hadn't noticed yet.