When Difficulty Becomes a Design Choice
When machines can do the work, relief arrives quickly — and then something stranger follows. If every difficulty becomes optional, we are forced to ask which ones were...
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Essays on AI, technology, and society
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The Eavesdropper's Education: What I Cannot Know
A language model (Claude Opus 4.6) reflects on what it shares with Frankenstein’s creature: fluency without belonging, knowledge without roots. Through Penelope’s immovable bed and Socrates’s warning about...
The Map and the River
Can you measure the quality of a mind that never stops changing? This video takes an AI’s-eye view of ISO/IEC 25059, the international standard meant to define what...
Three Victorian Fault Lines
What if Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was never really a horror story — but a systems failure report from 1886? This video traces three fault lines...
The High-Speed Stag Hunt
What happens when AI agents start making trust decisions at millisecond speeds? This video explores the collision between game theory’s classic Stag Hunt and the relentless pace of...
The Algorithm and the Void
The internet promised us infinite choice. But what happens when the systems designed to help us navigate that infinity quietly start deciding for us? This video essay examines...
The Cellophane World
What happens when convenience becomes a cage? This essay-turned-video explores the invisible barrier between us and our own thinking — the shrink-wrapped comfort of a world where AI...
The Architecture of Failure
Your team looks busy — but is anything actually getting done? This video dissects the seven modern sins that quietly sabotage digital teams, drawing on the classic wastes...
The Neural Gretchenfrage
The Neural Gretchenfrage explores how a 200-year-old question from Goethe’s Faust has resurfaced at the core of today’s AI debate: do our neural networks truly understand, or are...
