AI

Pacing is impossible under these incentives. The logic of venture capital demands exponential returns. The logic of platforms demands user retention. The logic of empire demands strategic advantage. None of these logics are compatible with precaution.

To put the point another way: Nobody expects a computer simulation of a hurricane to generate real wind and real rain. In the same way, a computer model of the brain may only ever simulate consciousness, but never give rise to it.

The modern white-collar economy runs on a kind of useful fiction. The meetings, the documentation, the rituals of email and review—none of it is useless, but a lot of it exists less to generate value and more to sustain employment. The middle class isn’t the reward for efficiency. It’s the camouflage for stability. A semi-meritocratic pseudo-UBI he... See more

What’s left is a runaway process. A sequence of product releases masquerading as progress. Every “small update” contains untested implications. Every “upgrade” shifts the terrain just a little more. Until suddenly a world exists where AI runs parts of the labor market, moderates political discourse, generates synthetic research, and no one remember... See more

These uniquely human capabilities will define the next decade of work, the abilities that machines can't replicate because they require complex judgment, ethical reasoning, creative intuition, and social intelligence.