Institutions and rules matter. “By binding the Crown to honor commitments that Parliament had sanctioned, England created what modern economists would recognize as a credible commitment mechanism. The sovereign could no longer expropriate creditors through inflation, default, or arbitrary taxation… Read More »Financial Power And Imperial Rule
Something crucial is missing. “The language model “knows” that balls fall when dropped — this is a robust statistical regularity across millions of texts. But it has never seen a ball. It has never felt gravity. It has never experienced… Read More »Meaning at the Boundary
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Is this different than the previous maker phases? “This matters because the scenius phase is where the internal transformation actually happens. When you spend two years making useless Arduino projects, you develop instincts about electronics, materials, and design that you… Read More »Vibe Coding and the Maker Movement
Using capitalism as Marxist argument. Fun and interesting read. “This is why its solutions never solve. A solved problem is a eliminated budget line. A managed problem is a permanent revenue stream.” https://tantaman.com/2026-01-27-what-would-marx-say-today
Current AI paradigm might become for IT what String theory is for Physics. “What happened next was not a reasoned evaluation of competing paradigms. It was a gold rush. Google hired Geoffrey Hinton. Facebook hired Yann LeCun. Baidu hired Andrew… Read More »Why We Stopped Using the Mathematics That Works
The terminology of AI is wrong. “At minimum, an agent has beliefs — not hunches, not vibes, but quantifiable representations of what it thinks is true and how certain it is. An agent has goals — not a prompt that… Read More »Agentic AI Is Neither Intelligent Nor an Agent
Not everything needs to be monetized. “The entire machinery of online discourse around building and creating has been so thoroughly captured by entrepreneurial “logic” that we’ve lost the language to describe what it feels like to simply make a thing… Read More »The Noble Path
If you are an engineer, have a responsibility for your actions.