On Why I Am Certainly Not the First Victim, and Likely the First Survivor
Why does a system that produces many victims keep them from seeing one another?
The Notes of Lu Heng
Who decides the future of the Internet?
Who gave the Internet’s recordkeepers the power to govern it? These Notes follow that question from everyday analogies to a different design for the network.
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Beyond Internet governance
Reality, civilization, time and the wider worldview.
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On Living in the Lie
What does a greengrocer’s slogan teach about institutions that keep performing belief?
On The Seven-Year Horizon
What changed between believing in reform from within and expecting a structural migration by 2033?
On Informational Civilization: The Inevitable Path from Biological Individuals to Cosmic-Scale Intelligence
If efficiency drives civilisation, what remains for human life?
On Why My Winning Is Historically Inevitable — and Why Winning Was Never the Point
Why is this a structural transition rather than a story about one person?
On Reality Layers, Symbolic Power, and Why Clarity Feels So Hostile
Why does clarity feel hostile to those who depend on ambiguity?