Tag: essay

All the articles with the tag "essay".

• Hesitation Is a Bug

  10 Mar, 2026 · 15 min read

  Civilization survived the twentieth century because humans hesitated at the critical moment. We are now building systems designed to make that hesitation impossible.

• The Ordeal, Returned

  10 Mar, 2026 · 17 min read

  We abandoned trial by ordeal because judgment required a human behind it. Eight centuries later, we are being asked to reverse the lesson.

• Preference Capture

  8 Mar, 2026 · 7 min read

  AI agents don't just reflect who you are. They decide who you'll keep being. The dangerous kind of advice isn't the kind that's wrong — it's the kind that sounds exactly like you.

• When the System Goes Down

  1 Mar, 2026 · 10 min read

  What an AI outage will reveal about the people who depend on it — and the civilization that forgot how to function without it.