A Systems-Level Clarification on Extrapolation, Human Learning, and Machine Error Preface: Clarifying Earlier Work In prior writing, I introduced the idea that intelligence — human
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the Edge of Humanity
We Are Standing at the Edge of Everything Humanity Has Built Every generation thinks it lives at an important moment. Most are wrong. We are
Miss O: The Technique Was Not the Point There’s a coffee shop near home where the tables don’t quite match and nobody complains about it.
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The Full Cost of Secrecy
We tend to discuss intellectual property, security, and secrecy as necessary evils—unfortunate but justified costs of innovation. The assumption is simple: guarding ideas is expensive,
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Multi-Dimensional Signal Computing
Expanding the Alphabet of Computation While Preserving Binary Stability A Structural Proposal for Increasing Symbolic Density per Physical Event Abstract Modern digital computation rests on
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Power Shifts With Tech
Another Lesson from the Story of Copper Technology itself is not what causes disruption and instability. The disruption comes from what happens around the technology.
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A Copper Age Lesson for AI
A Copper Age Lesson for AI I’m sitting here listening to a three-hour history lecture on the Copper Age, tracing the flow of metals and
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Power Gap
Opportunity in the Backup Power Economy Here’s a thought experiment. Everyone is building data infrastructure. Big cloud providers.Regional data centers.Hospitals.Municipal networks.Universities.Small companies running their own
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The Singularity Is NOW
For years, the idea of “the singularity” has lived safely in the future. A cliff we were supposedly racing toward. A moment when machines would
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The Privacy Myth in the Age of Total Surveillance
We are told, constantly, that our data is “secure.” Encrypted.Protected.Safeguarded by policy, compliance, and best practices. This is a comforting story. It is also a
Why Systems Exist to Be Spent A Thought Experiment on Structure, Dissipation, and Meaning Editorial Note:This piece is presented as a conceptual thought experiment.It reflects
This article argues that fungal mycelium may function as a living, controllable interface layer between humans and machines—without invasive neural implants—using sealed bioelectrochemical exchange and
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For Hire
An Open Offer to OpenAI: Hire the Work You’re Already Using I am not writing this as a complaint. I am writing it as a
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A Different Way to Think About Data Centers
A Local Ownership Model for Johnstown and Cambria County (This could work anywhere and should. Also site selection on the image was for convenience. No
Anchoring Intelligence: ROM as a Stabilizing Constraint Executive Summary In earlier pieces, we argued that reasoning improves under constraint, not fluency; that friction is not
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Designing for Reasoning, Part II:
An Open Experiment in Deliberate Friction What This Is (and Is Not) This is not a claim that current AI systems are “dangerous.”It is not
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Designing for Reasoning
Part I: Why Friction Matters 1. Observation, Not Accusation Most people do not reason by holding a single, perfectly consistent idea in their heads. When
Every generation leaves something behind. Sometimes it’s buildings or tools. Sometimes it’s damage. But always—whether we mean to or not—we leave lessons. Ways of thinking.
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Why not treat AI as a utility?
What If Data Centers and LLMs Actually Served Everyone? There’s a strange irony in the way the future is unfolding. We’ve built the largest knowledge
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Bright Meadow Group: Observe, Design, Intervene
Making Complex Systems Work Most people learn to work harder, to grind through a problem. Hard work solves immediate problems, but it doesn’t always change
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The AI Water Panic Is Misplaced
The Real Problem—and the Regenerative Fix No One Is Talking About Every new data center proposal seems to arrive with the same headline: “AI is
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Scarcity Is a Lie. Now What?
“We already have the tools to take care of everyone; we just haven’t redesigned our systems—or our thinking—to match that reality.” That sentence is not
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Constraint Is the Engine
Why Artificial Intelligence Needs Friction to Think Clearly (Hint: We all do.) The most reliable way to improve thinking—human or artificial—is not to make it
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Open Source the Future: Why Food, Water, and Healthcare Knowledge Must Belong to Everyone
Open the Knowledge or Admit the System Is a Lie Capitalism, regulated trade, markets—fine.I’m not here to argue against exchange or incentive. Capitalism is very
For the last decade, artificial intelligence has been built on a single, mostly unchallenged assumption: Smoother systems think better. Uniform processors.Uniform precision.Uniform clocks.Uniform routing.Minimal friction.
I’m not an artist. I always feel like I need to say that first, because anytime I talk about creativity, someone assumes I’m trying to
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What Happens When We Stop Starving Our Artists
A Long-Form Thought Experiment About AI, Creativity, and the Case for Universal Basic Income There’s a moment every artist knows, whether they say it out
Why Are WE Punching The Wrong Enemy There’s a strange irony in modern creative culture:people will use every labor-saving tool in existence — except the
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Innovation Isn’t Property
The Future Belongs to the Builders, Not the Gatekeepers On my workbench sits a rust-red vise, older than I am. It was forged in Ohio
What if…. Professor Kaczynski? Algorithmic Control vs. Human Freedom in a World Where Both Exist In an age where technology dictates nearly every facet of
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Training Ai to benefit us.
The Next Big Step: How We Can Shape the Future of Intelligence Introduction For a long time, people have tried to understand their place in