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- Custody and Agency: The Terms
Third in a series: Glass–Steagall for AI makes the argument; The Rule states it in one sentence. This piece defines the rule's terms and maps the effects of the rule on a small sample of widely used systems.
- Custody and Agency: The Rule
This essay explains a proposed rule. The argument for the structural separation it produces is in Custody and Agency: Glass–Steagall for AI. A third piece defines the terms of the rule – Custody and Agency: The Terms.
- Custody and Agency: Glass–Steagall for AI
This essay is the argument for a structural separation. A follow up gives a rule which produces the separation – Custody and Agency: The Rule. A third piece defines the terms of the rule – Custody and Agency: The Terms.
- Notes from Ten Years of Building Web Social Media
Companion to What Kind of Attention-at-Scale We Build with AI
- What Kind of Attention-at-Scale We Build with AI
Individual human attention is biologically bounded. Civilization is, among other things, the work of building infrastructure that scales attention past this biological bound.
- Trust, and Verify
Trust, but verify. A Russian proverb repurposed by Reagan for nuclear arms control. My take – trust, and verify. Reagan's doctrine was for adversarial, existential, low-trust cases – the exceptions, not the rule.
- On the Need to Design Useless, Destructured, and Ugly Architecture
Short essay questioning core axioms of the architectural discourse. The Editor of Dimensions called my article "The Anti-Architecture Manifesto".
- Discipline vs. "Field" Discourse
The original rather pretentious title (I was young then) was: "Towards An Old/New Way of Thinking, Writing, Designing"
- The "Crisis" of Traditional Means of Expression in Modern Art and Culture
Original text written during a four-hour exam for a post-graduate cultural studies fellowship at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski".
- The Attention Fundamentalist
Emil Sotirov's framework explained by Claude (from Anthropic) after extended conversations with Sotirov and reading his archive – essays, blog posts, tweets, and software. Emil edited the text.