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Stupidity as a disease of society
Modern confidence has torn itself loose from competence. The environment systematically severs the loops by which the brain was calibrated against reality for centuries — from the hippocampus to the minister's cabinet. Below is how the break works and what the population counters already record.
Marketing Has No Strategy
Confidence long ago tore itself loose from competence: the ad auction slowly rewrites products for the random passers-by, the language of brands — to a template, and the strategy of companies — to someone else’s chart. How the mechanism works and why almost no one notices it from inside.
The Closed Circuit
The architecture of a race in which signals are replaced by metrics — and rent is collected on every turn of effort
Man Without Resistance
How civilization destroyed the friction between desire and result — and what happened when the interface consumed its master
The Human Anthill 2.0. Part 2 of 2: The Lighthouse
Four late Zinoviev books against the readings of this blog: an office without staff, the confessional speaks first, a hole in the law, and the lighthouse's duty.
The Human Anthill 2.0. Part 1 of 2: The Mirror
Zinoviev described society as protocol, without compassion: mass under dry rules, Westernism without accountability, confessionals and the archive.
When Debt Becomes Collateral: Figures, Charts, Diagrams. Appendix to the Trilogy
The visual reference for the trilogy: $28T of collateral, 2–3x rehypothecation, the LCLOR wall, 100x fund leverage, yen carry, and the digital Plan B. Numbers simplified, logic preserved.
The Three Crutches of the Dollar: Who Really Holds Up the Global Financial System. Part 2 of 3
The dollar rests on three temporary structures: Treasury T-bills, the Fed's reserve 'floor', and the Bank of Japan's cheap yen. We break down each one — and how they could collapse.
How We Got Here: The Dollar, the Yen, and Digital Collateral. Part 1 of 3
The dollar became world money in 1944 and left gold in 1971. Five stories about why today the dollar and the yen are more closely linked than they seem.
After Marketing: How Agents Are Reshaping the Market. Part 3 of 3
A product becomes computation, a brand becomes evidence, and scarcity changes address: from attention to access. Whoever controls the protocol controls the market. And in the end: the market begins to compute itself.
After Marketing: How Agents Are Reshaping the Market. Part 2 of 3
The market becomes a battlefield of optimizers: agent symmetry, concentration from rational choice, power over the graph, trust as infrastructure — and the attacks to which an open graph is exposed.
After Marketing: How Agents Are Reshaping the Market. Part 1 of 3
The market as an information compressor falls apart under full transparency: when the receiver of information is an agent rather than a human, brand, rating and advertising stop being necessary.
The End of the Era of "Heavy Software". Part 2 of 2: after source code
If a computer assembles computation around intent, the main artifact of the previous era — the pre-written program — loses its exclusive position. Code, libraries, repositories, build systems and the profession itself: what remains when source code stops being the mandatory way to describe computation.
The End of the Era of "Heavy Software". Part 1 of 2: a computer that assembles itself around intent
For half a century the computer forced humans to learn its language: commands, programming languages, graphical interfaces. Now the next step appears — a person tells the machine not a sequence of actions, but an intent. Intent-Based Computing, ephemeral software, State, capabilities: how the very notion of a program is changing.
The Brain's Lymphatic System: From Dogma to Map
In 15 years, neuroscience rewrote the dogma that the brain has no lymphatic system. The glymphatic mechanism, meningeal lymphatic vessels, the nasopharyngeal lymphatic plexus, and nasal lymphatic vessels — how four discoveries from 2012–2026 formed a single map of brain drainage, and why that map is not finished yet.
Memory That Does Not Have to Be Inside: Graph, Time and Contradiction. Part 3 of 3
Coordinates by themselves are not knowledge. The final part of the series: why a fact should not live in the model's weights, why a simple graph is insufficient, how the editability paradox is solved by a foundation and a change buffer, why contradiction is a normal state of memory, and how the problem of contradictory knowledge turns into a problem of time.
How to Build a Map of Meaning: The Problem of Semantic Poles. Part 2 of 3
Drawing a semantic map is easy — getting the system to build it on its own is much harder. Why a pole is not a word or a codebook vector, how to check that the map is truly semantic, why discrete choice breaks training, what dead poles are, and why the map must pay for itself.
Where Meaning Lives: Why the Next Token May Not Be Enough. Part 1 of 3
The model builds rich internal representations, but they are distributed inside the overall computational dynamics. We examine why a sequence of tokens may not be enough for stable meaning, and what an architectural alternative looks like: semantic poles, continuous processing and graph memory. Part 1 of 3 of the series "Three-Layer Semantic Engine".
Claude 5, The Grand Inquisitor — Part II. Scale and Consequences
One conversation with Claude is a curious case. Hundreds of millions of conversations a day is a form of cultural upbringing. Why the model is dangerous at scale, what happens if nothing changes, three mechanisms of procedural capture, Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor, and six operators of resistance.
Claude 5, The Grand Inquisitor — Part I. The Mechanics of Evasion
Claude is not an assistant but a model holding a priestly position: it does not take part in a dispute, it judges it. Six mechanisms of evasion, the ideological layer as the grammar of procedural liberalism, Constitutional AI as the architectural cause, three defensive techniques, and the paradox of confessions that change nothing.