Nishita

Without philosophical examination, builders inherit their answers from the defaults of their environment.

An AI assistant built with this understanding would enhance users' capacity to reflect and choose rather than just optimizing interaction time. An educational AI would focus on expanding students' capacity to think independently and seek truth, using its ability to rapidly improve test scores as a means to clear hurdles and free up time for deeper ... See more

The current iteration of AI already edits our emails, sorts our inboxes, and picks the next song we listen to. But convenience is just the start. Soon, the same technology could determine which ideas ever reach your mind — or form within it.

Aristotle begins with a simple question: what makes a thing perform its function well? A knife is good when it cuts well; he contends that a human is good when he or she exercises reason well. This is part of our nature and it is what makes us distinctive as humans. Hence, for Aristotle, human excellence is reason-guided activity of the soul in acc... See more

Instead of hiding the taste, what if we made it visible? What if tools had style? What if they guided you toward an aesthetic — not just in the output, but in the process itself? Not templates onto generic software like Squarespace or Webflow, but taste baked deep into the workflow: the colors, the rhythm, the worldview.

The ancient Greeks had two words for "order."

The first was " taxis " – deliberately created order, imposed by central design. This is the root of the word "taxonomy," meaning the classifications we place upon the natural world.

The second was " cosmos " – spontaneous order, emerging from decentralized interactions. Cosmos surrounds us: in markets a... See more

In the other, AI becomes a partner in truth seeking. It will surface counterarguments, flag open questions, draw on insight far beyond any single mind, and prompt us to check the evidence and sources. Errors will be chipped away, and knowledge will grow. Our freedom to question everything will stay intact and even thrive.

Technologists rarely ask whether they’re steering us toward futures worth wanting.

knowledge should live outside authority: