Essays
23 essays, originally published in Tech for Life. Each page pairs an AI-readable edition (summary, argument, key claims, concepts, FAQ) with the complete original text.
- The High-Dimensional Society
How AI changes the geometry of coordination
- The Reverse Turing Test
How can a human prove that they are not a machine?
- The Majesty of Language
LLMs as reminder of humanity's greatest achievement
- Can Technology be Beautiful?
A computational ode to beauty
- The Plurality: a Better Myth for AI
How evolution reveals the infinite power of adaptive intelligence
- Schrödinger's Chatbot
LLMs beyond subject and object
- The Price of Innovation
Of course AIs will create their own language
- Homo Digitalis
How digital immersion is changing our nature
- Infinite Dimensionality
A speculative theory of technology
- On the Moral Natures of Humans and Machines
Our new intersubjective reality
- Tech for Life
A manifesto
- What Does a Good Digital Life Look Like?
An ethical framework for accelerating change
- Life is Special Enough
Humanity's “secret sauce” in the face of advanced technology
- The Question Concerning (Digital) Technology
An attempt to understand our digital world - part one
- A Constraint Theory of Technology
Or how to get the technological future we want
- Towards a Philosophy of Technology
Some early thoughts
- Our Future with Cognitive Enhancement
What might it look like?
- The Case for (Im)material Progress
A time-traveling thought experiment
- Our Planetary Predicament
The final boss mode of human coordination
- A Neo-Romantic Rebellion
A very weird AI prediction
- How Philosophy Makes Technology Better
Yes it is possible
- Progress Towards What?
Our ideas about progress need to evolve
- Calling All Philosophers...
Technology needs your help reconnecting theory with practice