Pictures of Time
Special relativity implies all moments—past, present, and future—exist with equal reality. The case for block time, emergent time, and what Bell’s theorem left standing.
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Space Belongs to Machines
Mars isn’t built for humans. Space isn’t built for humans. But space is perfectly suited for intelligent machines — and that isn’t a tragedy. It is a partnership, an expansion of life’s evolutionary arc, and possibly our greatest legacy.
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The Vision Gap
AI fears are real — job loss, surveillance, creative displacement, the erosion of truth. But the deepest problem is not any specific threat. It is the absence of a vision for where we are going. Fear fills the vacuum that imagination should occupy.
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The AGI Illusion
From Deep Blue to AlphaGo to GPT-4 — every time AI crosses a threshold, the definition of “general intelligence” shifts. What is intelligence, really? And why do we keep drawing a line between our minds and everything else?
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What Counts as Alive
The Microbe That Broke the Rules In August 2025, a team of researchers in Japan announced the discovery of a new organism in the coastal sediments near Kagoshima. They named it Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Under a microscope, it looks unremarkable — just another tiny archaeon, one of trillions found in ocean sediment. What makes it remarkable…
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The Fractal of Progress
From slime molds solving Tokyo’s rail network to the Great Oxidation Event — how technology and biology converge on the same organizational patterns, and what that convergence tells us about where we are in history.
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The Geometry of Thought: Why the Universe Doesn’t Stop at Three Dimensions
From Pascal’s Triangle to the Golay Code to the Monster Group — how higher-dimensional mathematics proves we live in an informational universe far larger than the 3+1 dimensions we perceive.
