the reading room

Long-form thought pieces. Newest first.

3 essays
  1. the maximizer is already running Bostrom's paperclip parable failed because it dressed indifference in the end of the world. Strip the apocalypse off and the maximizer is already deployed: in every feed, in every agent loop. Four dated predictions, held for inspection. 2026-09-29 · 8 min read · ai, safety
  2. the toupee fallacy How machines learned to write, why they all sound the same, and why a perfect detector would be the last one. 2026-09-29 · 16 min read · language, ai
  3. the landscape, annotated A snapshot of the AI world on September 28, 2026: the models, the schisms, the bodies, and five predictions, dated and held for inspection. 2026-09-28 · 13 min read · ai, snapshot