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Will control of the U.S. House still be officially uncalled at 6:00 a.m. ET on November 4?

A person who works for sixty hours a week usually works on problems the market does not urgently need to solve and will thus be paid less than a person who works thirty hours on the acute issues.
The market's indifference to effort is real.

Can we build an intelligence capable of outlier-level persistence and originality while ensuring that feedback changes its beliefs, exit remains possible for others, and no single objective becomes the infrastructure of everyone else’s life?

The system must combine persistent teleology with epistemic corrigibility.

AI is the industrialization of teleology. It converts directedness into feedback, feedback into control, control into infrastructure, and infrastructure into a condition of social life.

The most important metric would be the representation-to-control ratio: how much coordination capability a system gains from shared representations relative to how much democratic, legal, or moral control humans retain over its actions.

The future contest will not be between humans and machines over who possesses intelligence. It will be over who owns the shared representations and physical infrastructure through which intelligence becomes power.

The deepest question is therefore not whether AI can be creative. It is whether a nonhuman system can contribute durable primitives to human culture without becoming the authority that decides which primitives humanity should live by.

The last unpriced thing is not labor. It is not data. It is not attention. It is the possibility that, after all the systems have calculated what you are likely to do, you can still do something else and that doing something else can change the world available to everyone after u

Finance is a machine for making claims on the future. Debt, equity, insurance, derivatives, and money all
transform uncertain events into present arrangements.

The moment surprise becomes valuable, capital will try to industrialize it.

The intelligent economy will make reproducible value abundant and will begin to price irreplaceability.

AI does not automate intelligence.
It automates predictability.

The Power and Sovereignty Atlas seeks to map the actual architecture of power in the global economy. It investigates not merely who possesses wealth, but who controls the infrastructure through which wealth, information, intelligence, and decisions flow.

SWI/SNF complexes shape 3D chromatin architecture through CTCF and cohesin

Cognitive Mercantilism, by @ribbonfarm

100 launchpads, 1000 devs, and 2 buyers. What's wrong?

A bum today can be a boss tomorrow

Never expected to be in this position.