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Two strangers who cannot talk still find each other, because some answers are obvious to both. For all of history the obvious answer was made of shared history. AI is about to make it out of a shared machine, and this time the clock has an owner. … readThe New Grand Central
James Talarico will be elected President on Tuesday, November 7, 2028, by doing what no modern candidate has done: he will not ask you to join anything. He will make the federal government about you. … readThe Government of One: James Talarico Wins on November 7, 2028
A free book on the geometry underneath artificial intelligence: five rules of high-dimensional space that your body never learned, why they make learning possible, and seven predictions about the future they are building. … readEvery Direction at Once
AI learned what it knows from the written record, and the record is a survivor’s list, so the machine that answers our questions has old taste. Lindy’s Law just got an amplifier, and age is about to become the most valuable thing a business owns. … readThe Machine Has Old Taste
On Monday, December 16, 2030, the street will look almost exactly like today. AI will have remade the fastest layers of civilization and barely touched the slowest, and nearly everything that matters that day will happen at the seams between them. … readMonday, December 16, 2030
In 1730 Richard Cantillon noticed that new money raises prices from the point where it enters, outward, so whoever spends it first buys at yesterday’s prices. AI capability is entering the economy the same way — and until every market reprices, the same work carries two honest prices. … readTwo Honest Prices
Fifty years of evidence says people do not pocket safety — they spend it. AI is the first net under thinking itself, so the mistake rate will hold, the mistakes will consolidate, and failures will synchronize. … readThe Safety Will Be Spent
In 1968 Dietrich Braess proved that a new road can make every driver slower without anyone making a mistake. Personal AI agents are about to make his theorem the rule for everything we book, reserve and race for. … readEveryone Finds the Shortcut
The internet runs on a kindness its own architects now regret: be liberal in what you accept. AI is installing that kindness at every boundary between people — so ambiguity no longer bounces where it is cheap. It arrives polished, and surfaces where it is expensive. … readDelivered as Understood
Every buffer on Earth is sized to the error of a forecast, never to the forecast itself. AI is shrinking that error everywhere at once — and because surprise has a floor the optimizer cannot see, the economy is giving up its spares faster than the reason for them. … readSlack Is a Forecast