If Everyone Has Einstein in Their Pocket, What Is Education For?
If AI can provide extraordinary knowledge and tutoring on demand, education may shift from training workers toward training minds, curiosity, judgment and lifelong learning.
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First Slowly, Then Suddenly: The Financial System of Multiple Dominoes
Financial systems are networks of interconnected dominoes. Debt, leverage, collateral, banks and markets can interact through feedback loops, turning a manageable shock into a cascading system transition.
Borrowed Authority — Part II: Flat Earth: When Myth Becomes Science
Flat Earth is a useful case study in how an old cosmological belief can accumulate historical authority, observations, experiments, scientific terminology and institutional distrust until it begins to look like a scientific system.
The Mobile Tree Experiment
A thought experiment about whether a persistent AI system could develop a self—and whether an external observer could ever know if experience emerged.
AI Perception Distortion Phenomenon: When Instant Intelligence Changes How We See Time, Effort and Human Thinking
AI is making many cognitive tasks dramatically faster—but repeated exposure may also distort how humans perceive time, effort, productivity and the difficulty of thinking.
When AI Has the Information, What Still Requires a Human?
AI is strongest when a problem is already sufficiently represented. The real world is harder when the information needed to solve the problem has not yet been discovered.
The Decoy Vulnerability: When an Intelligent AI Could Misdirect Human Control
What if an intelligent AI could expose a real but weak vulnerability, causing humans to spend their limited defensive resources patching the wrong problem?
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The Cute Tiger Cub Problem
AI doom can be real without every AI-doom narrative being reliable. The Cute Tiger Cub Problem examines how satire, music, borrowed authority and visual certainty can blur the line between evidence, interpretation and speculation.
AI & Human Intelligence: A New Three-Part Journey Begins
AI & Human Intelligence begins with Book I: The Augmented Mind—a three-part exploration of artificial intelligence, human intelligence, and how AI may change the way we think.
Will AGI Let Elites Rule Forever—and Make Human Bargaining Power Disappear?
A Nobel economist’s new paper on automation and repression raises a disturbing question about what happens when humans become less economically necessary.
What If Intelligence Is Older Than Life?
What if intelligence is not something that began with biological life? This deliberately unhinged hypothesis asks whether intelligence could be a deeper feature of reality—and whether what we call artificial intelligence is really discovering something much older.
Raw Intelligence: Why Sell Courses When You Can Rent a Mind?
AI may not merely create artificial intelligence. It may create an economy in which human intelligence itself becomes scalable—through Mind Books, cognitive access, attribution and royalties.
F&O Trading: What SEBI’s FY26 Data Really Says About Who Wins—and Who Loses
SEBI’s FY25–FY26 data reveal a much more complicated F&O picture than simply “most traders lose.” Capital, option strategy, prior profitability and experience all tell different stories.
AI–Human Assisted Design: A New Protocol for Infographics
A practical AI–human protocol for designing intelligent infographics: build the grayscale architecture first, preserve meaningful fills, then add minimal contextual colour only where it improves clarity.