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Each piece is a polished long-form essay on the front, with the full research dossier as an appendix. Add new packages here as you publish them.
Two Prices for the Same Intelligence
Altman’s law prices tokens; Epoch measures the bill to reach a fixed score. Why the rates rhyme, but the meters differ.
Read essay →Typed Decisions, Not Chat
Jev by TypeSafe AI — what shipped on 15 September 2026, which extraordinary claims survive the footnotes, and what an inspectable audit trail actually is.
Read primer →The Slow Catch the Swift
Hephaestus and Aphrodite — the lame smith, the foam-born goddess, the invisible net, and what happens when making and wanting share a house. Eleven chapters, eleven plates, full research appendix.
Read essay →File Becomes Part
3D printing / additive manufacturing — processes, materials, markets, industrial adoption, AI convergence, and the limits of the hype.
Read essay →Inside the Box, Against the Grain
TRIZ, Systematic Inventive Thinking, and SCAMPER — three structured innovation methods that change search policy against cognitive fixedness.
Read essay →Synthetic Biology
Read → write → boot living systems: DNA stack, sequencing, CRISPR, synthetic cells, de-extinction, xeno organs, longevity, alt proteins, and vertical farms.
Open research →Who Holds the Stamp?
Why claim ledgers run modern money — the speed gap, debt entropy, Cantillon ladders, freezes, and the open-vs-control fork — with the full research dossier attached.
Read essay →The Machines That Forgot the Pilot
Drones, UAVs, eVTOLs, swarms, and flying cars — plus 3D airspace, UTM/U-space, and why fleets lag demos — with the full research dossier attached.
Read essay →The Reviewer Still Wins
GDPval, the honest AI productivity math with human oversight, break-even win rates, Grok 4.6 on the 2026 boards — and why paying people to check AI still pencils.
Read essay →Future Forge Foresight Check
We checked the year-keyed predictions behind Future Forge inventing practice against 2025–2026 evidence — they check out. Full scorecard, clusters, and twelve plates.
Open research →Meditations on Moloch
Multipolar traps, exponential EmTech, and the AI race — Scott Alexander’s Moloch, Schmachtenberger’s superorganism, seven plates, and a six-question diagnostic.
Open research →Common Wealth
Emad Mostaque’s Intelligent Internet papers, retold for general readers: personhood, intelligent economics, the last court, and the last republic — membership, provision, force, and who holds the pen.
Open series →The Shared Computer
Grok Bot and Hermes Agent Bots are cousins exchanging clothes: the teammate glass converges in days, while the persistent runtime host remains the load-bearing difference.
Read essay →The Door They Meant, and the Door They Wrote
OpenAI’s claimed Navier–Stokes solution, Clay’s four doors, and a weekend of agents — plus the contract follow-on: what enterprise plans actually guarantee, and why Zero Data Retention is not Copilot.
Read essay →Last updated: 2026-09-16 · Pattern: essay front + research appendix (or illustrated research / multi-essay series)