Sentiers
Scenario planning for the “jobless future” ⊗ Software brains & statistical engines
Civilizational optionality ⊗ The social edge of intelligence
A peculiar mixture of omniscience and impotence ⊗ Electrostates & physics
Geist in the machine ⊗ The prospect of Butlerian Jihad
We’re all living in the “Mirror World” now ⊗ The AI boom is a polycrisis
Habermas and his coffeehouses ⊗ The case for radical solar optimism
Syndicates of capital ⊗ Three modes of cognition
An obscure media theory ⊗ World literacy
A country of geniuses ⊗ Collapse: A framework
The next great transformation ⊗ AI and the futures of work
What technology takes from us ⊗ Private sufficiency, public abundance
The future of being human ⊗ For the sake of mutual interdependence
Why science fiction can’t predict the future ⊗ The straw, the siphon, and the sieve
The mythology of conscious AI ⊗ The discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack
The post-American internet ⊗ Scanning the present through a polycrisis lens
AGI is here (and I feel fine) ⊗ A call for new stories
AI in 2026 and beyond ⊗ Bioregionalism’s tech-driven revival
Gramsci’s nightmare ⊗ A small slice of human knowledge
Taking jaggedness seriously ⊗ All futurists are archivists
Writing with probabilistic machines ⊗ What is the right atomic unit for knowledge?
11 discoveries that changed my worldview ⊗ AI acceleration vs. precaution
Investing in the ecosystems that sustain us ⊗ The (Sino-)future is now ⊗ Actually existing solarpunk
The pivot ⊗ We should all be Luddites ⊗ What is civil society, and why should we care?
Beyond the machine ⊗ History as science
AI is fuelling a poverty of imagination ⊗ Why nothing about AI is inevitable
Updating mental models of risk ⊗ An AI tool for learning critical thinking ⊗ What machines don’t know
The great erosion ⊗ Future of thinking about the future ⊗ On Sora
The cloister & the starship ⊗ An environmental triumph ⊗ End GDP mania
Don’t think of AI chatbots as people ⊗ Shared reality will self-destruct ⊗ What if the Post Office had its own AI model?
Reading and writing with AI
The lost art of thinking historically ⊗ How climate broke reality ⊗ Does the Bitter Lesson have limits?
AI gets stuck in infinite loops ⊗ A real genius club ⊗ The metabolic logic of AI slop
Human literacy ⊗ Polytunity ⊗ Africa and the world map
Is the AI bubble about to burst? ⊗ A life with less pleasure reading ⊗ Bringing human nature back in
GPT-5 and the end of naive AI futurism ⊗ All the world’s polygons ⊗ The future will be boring
Chatbots undermining the Enlightenment ⊗ Flounder mode ⊗ Learners will inherit the earth
Think like a commoner ⊗ Governing unthinkable futures ⊗ Why we need new future archetypes
Taste is the new intelligence ⊗ Using ChatGPT won’t make you dumb ⊗ AI first puts humans first
Political dimensions of solarpunk ⊗ Conquering the imagination deficit ⊗ Machine readable
How the universe thinks without a brain ⊗ One flew over Latent Space ⊗ The lost art of research as leisure
A new political compass ⊗ Normal technology at scale ⊗ Illusion or reason?
The new legislators of Silicon Valley ⊗ Friction it the most valuable commodity ⊗ Everything feels broken but weirdly normal
Vibe augmentation