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V - How the fourth lock is being sold

Reflections on the Human Condition

VI - The Signs in the Horizons

Reflections on the Human Condition IX - On the synthetic sovereign and the cage shaped like a throne
I - The Crowning

IV. Brave New World

What you are seeking is seeking you. This essay cannot tell you what that means. It can only clear some of the furniture that is in the way.

VI. The Agora and the Feed

Essay VI · On Friction, Feeling, and the Parenting of a Species

The Pseudo-Religions and What They Are Actually Reaching For

In Arabic they rhyme — sharaf or alaff - The realities they name could not be further apart.

The Global South as the Last Unenclosed Ground

Reflections on the human condition. The 600-year project of enclosing what was common — and the philosophy hired to make it look inevitable

nthropic is regarded as a giant among AI companies, but perhaps what it really excels in is anthropomorphism. Earlier this year, the company released an 84-page document titled Claude’s “constitution,” Claude being the name of the large language model that is the company’s flagship product. The first sentence reads, “Claude’s constitution is a detailed description of Anthropic’s intentions for Claude’s values and behaviors.” It goes on: “The document is written with Claude as its primary audience,” “we want Claude to be able to use its judgment once armed with a good understanding of the relev…

At first glance, the feed looks familiar, a seamless carousel of “For You” updates gliding beneath your thumb. But déjà‑vu sets in as 10 posts from 10 different accounts carry the same stock portrait and the same breathless promise — “click here for free pics” or “here is the one productivity hack you need in 2025.” Swipe again and three near‑identical replies appear, each from a pout‑filtered avatar directing you to “free pics.” Between them sits an ad for a cash‑back crypto card.

Language is not Thought. Language is an expression of a thought and you don't need language to think. AI is a siloed language model that is incapable of self-learning and enhancing it's own model if it doesn't have the architecture and the memory. It's an architectural problem that hasn't been solved yet.

Models of Language Are Not Models of Thought: Why Current AI Agents Can't Learn

The internet was built for humans. Every pixel, every scroll animation, every cookie banner you rage-click through — designed for eyeballs. For attention. For you to linger, convert, subscribe.

Reflections on the Human Condition IX - On the synthetic sovereign and the cage shaped like a throne
I - The Crowning

Reflections on the Human Condition — The Center - On the circle of existence, the centrifugal civilization, and what was always at the center of everything

What you are seeking is seeking you. This essay cannot tell you what that means. It can only clear some of the furniture that is in the way.

The Digital Receipts of Having Existed

Nine women cannot make a baby in one month.

Essay VI · On Friction, Feeling, and the Parenting of a Species

In Arabic they rhyme — sharaf or alaff - The realities they name could not be further apart.

Reflections on the human condition. The 600-year project of enclosing what was common — and the philosophy hired to make it look inevitable

How the world was formatted for smooth playback — and what we lost in the buffering

Don't feed both sides of yourself equally. The spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attention. Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry. — Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī, Masnavi

A reflection on epistemology, media, and the fate of truth