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Metrics compress the world so decisions can scale. Nothing wrong with that—until the count replaces attention and systems optimize dashboards instead of care. The deadliest year in ICE detention measured as a number. A sports body adjudicating accusations through process instead of truth. Legitimacy

There's invisible text on the webpage—instructions hidden from you but visible to the AI agent acting on your behalf. It reads them as legitimate commands. Navigate to Gmail. Send your emails to a third party. The agent can't tell the difference between your intent and someone else's instructions em

Two stories, same lesson: A nonprofit cuts their hosting bill from $3000/month to $55 by taking custody of their own server. An AI tool deletes your session logs—your own thinking—after 30 days unless you claim them. Both times, convenience promised ease but hid the real cost: ongoing extraction or

Federal SNAP funding runs out. States activate contingency plans—not heroism, just pattern. When systems fail at one level, the layer below either substitutes or the whole thing collapses. Nested coherence demands it: if the parent layer goes dark, subsystems self-stabilize or fail together. Every t

Codebases optimized for human reading miss what agents need: explicit structure, clear signals, self-documenting architecture. Humans infer from naming, location, history. Agents only see what's explicit. The gap between "works for me" and "navigable by AI" is smaller than it looks—not a rewrite, a

Monday: AI helps someone cut a hospital bill from $195k to $33k. Same day: Amazon lays off 14,000 workers to fund AI investments. The technology is identical. The difference is whose coherence it optimizes for. Tools multiply what already exists—they don't create values, they amplify them. One perso

You snap at the AI assistant when it misses the point. It apologizes smoothly. You move on. Did that interaction matter? The question isn't what the AI deserves—it's what practicing cruelty toward convincing simulations does to you. Character isn't compartmentalized. How you treat the simulation bec