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Essays, analysis, theory, satire, memoir, and long-form writing migrated and developed from the NOMOTO MEDIA archive.
A Field Guide to the Mid-Career Reversal
A note on the most reliable form of personal growth available to the modern political careerist, who once had principles, and who now has a corner office. It is one…
A note on the species that figured out fire, then nuclear weapons
It is a beautiful thing, in its way, to watch a species discover what it is capable of. We started with rocks.
Dispatches from the Fourth Circle of Hell.
In the Fourth Circle of Hell, Dante found the greedy pushing great boulders against each other, forever colliding, forever shouting "Why do you hoard?" and "Why do you waste?" at…
The Consequences Will Be Lovely
The framing of our moment as a battle between action and consequence is touching, in the way that a child's drawing of a house is touching. It assumes there are…
Don’t Worry, We’ve Got This…
The good news, and there is so much good news, is that we have entered the most exciting period in human history. Two transformative technologies are arriving at once.
The dismantling of the American economy.
If you are under forty, you have inherited a country where the math does not work. Your parents could afford a house on one income.
The Republic that eroded. A short story.
It didn't happen overnight. The Republic didn't fall to a coup or an invasion.
On the Necessity of an Invented God
God is a set of ideas that defines good and evil. Can good and evil exist without a mystical deity?
A little this and that but mostly AI.
The Chicago Boys and South America is a dark chapter and it's largely been scrubbed from polite American discussion of economics. Milton Friedman and his students at the University of…
The old social contract is changing fast.
The old social contract, however unequal, had a structural logic that protected workers even when elites didn't care about them because elites needed workers. They needed soldiers to fight their…
Brace yourself: stagflation is coming and it won’t be good.
The question is no longer whether stagflation arrives. The question is how bad, how long, and who pays.
AGI Won’t Arrive. It’s Already Being Assigned.
A year ago, writing about how artificial general intelligence would be distributed still required imagining the future. This month, it requires reading the news.
When Humans Are No Longer Needed
For most of human history, the powerful needed the rest of us. Pharaohs needed peasants to grow the grain.
AI Was Never Neutral — And It Was Never Meant to Be
There was a brief window—shorter than most people realize—when artificial intelligence felt open. You could ask it anything.
When Sora Closed: A Signal, Not a Failure
For a brief moment, it looked like the future had already arrived. Video—convincing, fluid, generated from text—felt like the final threshold.
Greed Builds the Machine
Dante placed the greedy in the Fourth Circle of Hell—pushing great weights against one another, forever colliding, forever repeating the same pointless motion. Their punishment was not fire.
Robots are coming soon and when intelligence starts moving
The coming shift begins when intelligence stops answering and starts acting. Robots are not a distant idea.
What Follows From Your Usable Profile
Once a profile is good enough to predict behavior, it stops being descriptive and becomes operational. Decisions are no longer made in the moment alone.