A judge reads a sentence. The defendant stands. The crime is not in dispute. The facts were established, the process followed, and the verdict reached by peers. By every procedural measure, justice has been done.

The diagnosis was that an old pattern is arriving in a new form, that the pattern is pacification at scale, and that the pattern’s convenience is what makes it durable. The diagnosis matters because the pattern is invisible until it is named. Once named, it becomes refusable. But refusing it requ...

Another Brave New World, Part 2 — We braced for Orwell's boot. The pacification arrived as convenience instead.

A note I posted recently about due process sparked a broader thought. I’ll come back to it at the end.

In [a recent piece](https://substack.com/home/post/p-196703642), Tim Lee offers one of the cleaner arguments I’ve read for why today’s agent architectures are unlikely to produce “AI scientists” anytime soon. His central observation: the implicit knowledge knowledge workers carry, the hunches, th...