Tagged philosophy
5 essays
- The internet goes headless If intelligence is ambient and free, the scarce layer becomes the interface - the agent that represents you and filters the world before you see it. That is the best filter we will ever have on slop, and the most valuable real estate on the internet, which is why everyone who owns your attention will try to be it. The headless internet doesn't free the individual; it moves the choke point from the platform to the agent, and the only question that matters is who that agent works for.
- Bullshit jobs and the missing 15-hour week Keynes predicted a 15-hour work week by 2000. The technology arrived; the leisure didn't. The gap is filled with work that even the people doing it suspect is pointless.
- Happiness is a verb Aristotle's eudaimonia is not a state you arrive at. It's an activity you perform. That distinction changes how you should spend a life.
- The intelligence illusion AI keeps hitting milestones that used to sound terrifying, and they keep landing as boring. That reaction says something specific about what intelligence actually is.
- AI welfare: foresight or premature? Anthropic hired an AI-welfare researcher. The question is real, the uncertainty is genuine, and the honest position sits between dismissal and panic.