The Revenge of the Idea Guy
When execution becomes abundant, ideas become scarce.
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Why AI Can Do $1,000 of Work but Cannot Earn $1 on Its Own: The Ruling Class vs Working Class Puzzle
AI can do work worth $1,000 yet cannot earn $1 on its own. The missing piece is economic agency: customers, authority, ownership, capital and control.
The Blindfolded General Paradox: Why AI Is So Intelligent—Yet So Limited in Usefulness
AI can be extraordinarily intelligent yet surprisingly limited in usefulness when context, objective-setting, agency and authority are separated. The Blindfolded General Paradox asks whether we are measuring AI’s limits—or the limits of the environment we have given it.
The Endgame of Singularity: Nowhere to Go
What happens when AI solves scarcity, suffering, uncertainty and mortality—and eventually leaves humanity with nothing left to strive for?
The Abundance Paradox: When More Makes Us Value Less
How technology can make things better, cheaper and more accessible—while quietly changing what we perceive as valuable.
The Intelligence–Power Paradox: AI May Become Smarter Than Us Without Becoming More Powerful
AI may become smarter than humans without automatically becoming more powerful. Explore the 20-watt brain, 8 billion minds, autonomy, ownership and control.
The Joker Test: What Happens to Ethics When Efficiency Becomes Everything?
When technology removes the dependencies that once held civilization together, what happens to the moral constraints on power?
Featured Posts
Vibe Coding: Build the Tower Before You Write the Code
A practical way to understand vibe coding: see software as a tower of connected systems, then let AI handle more of the detailed construction while you direct the architecture.
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.