Essays on technofeudalism, acceleration, and owning your tools.
Zuckerberg wrote the strongest open-source argument a frontier CEO has ever put on paper. It is an argument against its own author. Concentration is the risk — which is exactly why "trust me, I'll distribute it" is the danger wearing a friendly face.
Eric Schmidt got booed for fifteen minutes at a commencement. The argument under the rocket ship line was correct. The boos mechanically produce the worst version of the transition.
Sanders and AOC want to pause data center construction until Congress figures out AI. The intent is good. The game theory is fatal.
Intelligence is getting cheaper. The next step is applying it where scarcity still lives: the physical world. The only real question is who owns it when it gets there.
AI is theoretically capable of replacing 94% of tasks in Computer & Math jobs. It is covering 33% today. That gap is not reassurance — it is a timeline.
Six hundred and forty-two thousand tech workers laid off in a single year. One in four were explicitly told to "AI-driven restructuring." This is the protocol that replaces them.
Terence Tao says AI is doing math now. Here's what he actually said, and why the tech press got it wrong.
A credible crisis scenario, translated from investor-speak into what it actually means.
On AI, power concentration, 20-watt brains, and why science always wins.
Fear leads to bans. Bans lead to irrelevance. Reality requires building.
Announcing the Texas Scraper Kit — the first tool from c4573.org. Who it's for, what it does, and why it costs less than lunch.
On technofeudalism, escape velocity, and why the only way out is through.