I write about AI and Geopolitics
Bill Friend Weaponizing Friction and the Blueprint of the Durable Person If you just read the last essay and felt a cold, deep dread, you’re not wrong. That feeling of being stuck isn’t a failure on your part. It’s exactly what the system wants. When we face a huge, automated system, we can feel small. It’s too … Read more
From Exploitation to Eradication In the last essay, we looked at three big ideas for tomorrow: the good future of Pax Silica, the scary speed of AI wars, and the quiet problem of the ‘durable person.’ Now, we need to focus on the darkest part of these ideas. We must face the harsh truth of … Read more
The Three Fault Lines of Evolutionary Capability In the last essay, we talked about the “line of departure.” This is when AI stops just using human data. It becomes an agent that creates, tests, and acts on its own. It works in a closed loop. When technology crosses this line, it doesn’t make just one … Read more
Essay 1 set the stage, showing us where we’ve been. Now, let’s look at right now. To really get how big the AI revolution is, we have to compare it only to what AI has done so far. Forget the hype and the sci-fi worries. The last tech jump that changed things this much, globally, … Read more
When Paradigms Shift, Power Follows To really get what’s happening now, we need to look past the marketing from Silicon Valley. We also need to ignore the scary sci-fi stories. We’re not just seeing a new software tool come out. We’re living through something much bigger. It’s a General Purpose Technology. These are rare. They … Read more