Pre-History of an Encounter

An Economic Theory of Maximalist Risk Management

I’ve recently started reading “The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism” by Fritz Bartel which sketches how…

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July 2025

Superintelligence isn’t Approximated by a Rational Agent

(Thank you to Jessica Taylor and others who provided feedback on this essay)

Jul 24 • 

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Merely Language Machines?

A Review of "Language Machines" by Leif Weatherby

Jul 17 • 

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A Sketch of a Revision to Orthodoxy

Dynamics beyond class struggle in historical materialism

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March 2025

A Soul of a New Type

My essay collection is out

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February 2025

The Political Economy and Ideology of the Present Crisis

At the end of a political economy piece I published in September 2023, I noted that the long legacy of under-investment caused by neoliberalism seemed…

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November 2024

PHE Podcast EP1: The Theory of the Young Boy

Recently recorded a podcast with Baroque Spiral on his very good book “The Theory of the Young Boy” as well as on Trump’s recent electoral victory.

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Higher Order Signs, Hallucination and Schizophrenia

Picture yourself on a beach.

Nov 1, 2024 • 

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October 2024

Galatea and the windup toy

The problem of the rationalist theory of mind

Oct 26, 2024 • 

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My Novel: Caeruleus

In 2016 I was a freshman in college, and it was then that I published the novel I had labored on for most of high school.

Oct 24, 2024 • 

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August 2024

Why the Universe is Not Math

A response to Alexander Prähauser

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July 2024

Competition and entrepreneurship in socialism

How can we imagine a society without money, profit, or classes?

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