The Last Instrumental Century
On the possibility — and the possible forms — of a human future
Collection I
Essays
Dense, opinionated texts on science, philosophy, artificial intelligence, consciousness, literature and the future. Includes the Polymathēs series.
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2026
The Partition of the Abyss
Mereological Nihilism of Consciousness
The Tyranny of the Mirror: Consciousness, Deliberation and the Necessary Suffering of Human Decisions
Conscious deliberation is not the origin of our choices but a late narrator of them; the essay argues that much specifically human suffering comes from consciousness invading the domain of the subconscious, and asks who, after all, decides.
The Possibility of Superintelligence and the Void of Alignment
Nothing known prevents a superintelligence from existing; the technical path and the timeline are opaque; and the alignment problem is open while institutions are inadequate. An argument for cautious possibilism, neither doomerism nor complacency.
Intelligent Computers, Life Extension, and the Reconfiguration of Human Conditions
How artificial intelligence is turning the reversal of aging from a philosophical aspiration into an engineering program: epigenetic reprogramming, AlphaFold, deep aging clocks, six original theses, and the ethical and geopolitical stakes.
Dropping the Purism: What Language Models Have Conquered, What Still Eludes Them, and Why General Intelligence Is a Continent No Species — Biological or Digital — Has Fully Explored
Linguistic competence in language models is a genuine achievement of intelligence, but only one region of a multidimensional topography that crows, chimpanzees and octopuses explore in ways LLMs cannot: action, grounding, interaction, development.
Science as a Civilizational Project
A tour of the frontiers of life, mind, matter, computation and the cosmos, and an argument that science, despite the systems that hobble it, remains humanity's noblest collective project.
Flesh and Entropy
An essay on consciousness in a universe of entropy: what depression sees, why we refuse Nozick's experience machine, and what art, free science and technology can and cannot do about suffering.
AI Should Learn Like Children
A Hypothesis on Artificial Intelligence, Child Cognitive Development, and the Limits of the Statistical Mind
