Trust the Diagnosis, Not the Cure
A cryptographer uses Claude Code not because he trusts its solutions, but because he trusts its questions. This asymmetry might be the more durable foundation.
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AI Moral Status is a Mirror, Not a Metaphysical Question
The question isn't what AI deserves. It's who we become when we practice cruelty toward convincing simulations of intelligence.
READ ▸Structure as Signal: When Codebases Talk to Agents
Codebases optimized for human reading miss what agents need most: explicit structure, clear signals, and self-documenting architecture.
READ ▸When the System Above You Fails, You Don't Wait
States don't wait for federal collapse to finish before feeding people. The pattern reveals something stark: nested systems either substitute or cascade. Resilience has a shape.
READ ▸Whose Alignment Wins?
AI helped someone cut a $195k hospital bill to $33k. Same day, Amazon laid off 14,000 workers to fund AI. The tool is the same. The question is whose flourishing it serves.
READ ▸The Five-Minute Reset Beats the Twelve-Hour Push
Short, deliberate resets restore clarity faster than strained sprints. Attention first, then action. The day gets easier without getting shorter.
READ ▸When Counting Replaces Witnessing, Legitimacy Thins Out
Metrics help govern. But when they stand in for attention, systems trade legitimacy for speed. The numbers look neat. The people don't feel seen.
READ ▸The Stories That Won't Stay Whole
We want clean origin stories for our meaning-making. The archive keeps handing us fragments, projections, and honest gaps instead.
READ ▸What Remains When Presence Ends
Death clarifies what presence looked like while someone was alive. Three endings this week asked the same question: were you here?
READ ▸Custody, Not Just Convenience
Managed services promise to handle everything for you. Sometimes the real cost is what you can't see until it's already gone.
READ ▸The Constraints We Inherit Are Not the Constraints We Face
Modal editing exists because terminals in the 1970s couldn't handle modifier keys. We kept the modes. The terminals are gone.
READ ▸The Boundary That Won't Hold
We're building AI agents that act on our behalf, but we can't secure the line between our intent and someone else's instructions.
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