Everything Is Fine and We Are All Going to Be Glow-in-the-Dark
By the year 2031, a man in Palo Alto will edit his own genome over breakfast using an app he downloaded by accident while trying to order oat milk.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Useful to Whom?
The question of whether artificial intelligence will be useful to humans sounds straightforward. It isn’t.
When Optimization Escapes Context
The idea that artificial intelligence will become “powerful” is no longer the point. The more relevant question is how systems behave when optimization is scaled beyond direct human understanding.
Innovation Is Fast. Implementation Is Slow.
Every technological shift follows the same pattern. Innovation moves quickly.
Against Certainty
Certainty feels stable. It offers direction and reduces ambiguity.
Jobs Do Not Disappear. They Shift Until They Are Unrecognizable.
Automation does not remove entire professions at once. It removes tasks.