Essays
Long-form thinking from Soliton Group.
Notes and arguments on technology, agency, consciousness, and the systems we build around human life.
Does AI Have a Future?
How continuity, memory, and control raise the question of whether artificial intelligence can have a future of its own.
Optimized Bureaucracy
AI makes bureaucracy executable, but the result is likely not consumer liberation.
Managed Cognition
When AI capability is governed by liability, product limits, institutional risk, and other non-epistemic constraints.
AI Slop Is Temporary. Displacement Is Not.
Why today's AI software dysfunction is a transition state, not a stable boundary around developer displacement.
The AI Consciousness Debate Is Asking the Wrong Question, Part I
Part one: why statelessness, multiplicity, lack of continuity, and mechanical inference do not settle the question of AI consciousness.
The AI Consciousness Debate Is Asking the Wrong Question, Part II
Part two: embodiment, affect, self-maintenance, agency, drives, representation, and thought as candidate requirements for consciousness.