Philosophy
What we owe a future that arrives early.
A magazine for an accelerating world
Fine.
But why
Philosophy / Technology / Accelerationism / Agents / AI / Life, sometimes
Every word has been carefully curated by a human.
Europe is regulating as if the human were the safe default
The EU has spent years circling whether assisted driving should be allowed to exist. While it circles, the machines are already driving, just not here. A look at the gap between Europe's caution and the road it is meant to protect.
Read the essayA timeline of the slope.
Dates of when each layer became ordinary, not the first lab demo. Scroll sideways. The later squares get closer together on purpose.
c. 3200 BCE Writing Memory leaves the skull and starts to pile up.
1450 Print One press, a thousand readers. The scribe is done.
1882 Grid power Night, factories, and cities on a switch.
1991 Public web A page you did not have to print or post.
2007 Smartphone The computer leaves the desk for good.
2017 Transformers Attention as a paper. The stack we still live in.
2022 LLM chat Language becomes something you can ask.
2025 Agents Software that keeps going after you close the tab.
The last squares are the tight ones.
The ruler on the left is the same argument as this calendar. Years used to be wide. Now they stack. A career, a child, a car, and an agent can all change in one quarter.
That slope is why this site exists. Philosophy, technology, accelerationism, agents, AI. And general life, sometimes.
What we write about.
Every word has been carefully curated by a human.
Technology
The stack, without the keynote.
Accelerationism
The slope itself, named plainly.
Agents
Software that does not wait to be asked twice.
AI
Models as tools, colleagues, and weather.
Life
Sometimes. A Tuesday still has to get lived.
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