Blogs
Notes on AI, philosophy, and whatever else I’ve been thinking about — some finished, some still in progress.
No, Claude is Not Conscious
Anthropic's global workspace paper became a wave of takes about a subconscious waking up inside Claude. The research is careful. The retelling isn't.
Delayed Childbearing Is Quietly Rewriting Humanity's Source Code
Natural selection scores a gene at the moment reproduction happens. That moment has moved five years later in half a century, and it is quietly changing what we are being optimised for.
Be Careful If You're Doing Research with Claude Fable 5
Anthropic's own documentation says Claude quietly degrades its output on frontier ML research. It doesn't refuse and it doesn't fall back — which is exactly what makes it a problem.
When Images No Longer Capture Reality
For two centuries an image was evidence that something had been in front of a lens. Generated images carry no such anchor, and we still read them as though they do.
The Endgame of AI and Economics: From Corporate Tax to Universal Allocation
Automation hands companies the gains and hands the state the unemployment. A tax on displaced labour is the obvious first move — but the road it starts on ends somewhere much stranger.