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.
The Closed Circuit
The architecture of a race in which signals are replaced by metrics — and rent is collected on every turn of effort
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.
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".
Freudianism: From Liberation to the Religion of the Unconscious
A critical analysis of Freudianism's transformation from a radical liberation theory into a secular religion: reductionism, the dumbing-down culture, mechanistic paradigm versus dialectics of development, and the paradox of conscious freedom.