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Is the expectation that advanced AI will serve human interests a reasonable engineering goal, an unsupported projection of human values onto non-human systems, or a necessary fiction that sustains public cooperation with AI development?
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The ideas don't slow down. Neither do we.
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Measuring specific Anti-Federalist predictions about federal consolidation against nearly 250 years of historical evidence, applying who-benefits analysis to the confirmed pattern of centralization, and building the evidentiary case that the structural skeptics correctly read the incentive...
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AI companions, therapists, tutors, and conversational partners are becoming emotionally competent enough that growing numbers of people are substituting them for human relationships — not because they are deceived about what they are talking to, but because the AI interaction is more patient,...
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Documenting the specific, testable predictions the Anti-Federalist writers made about how the proposed Constitution's structural provisions would consolidate federal power, grounded in primary source material from Brutus, Federal Farmer, Cato, Patrick Henry, and George Mason, with fair treatment...
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Ford Motor Company's Pinto fuel tank cost-benefit decision — the explicit calculation that deaths were cheaper than an $11-per-vehicle fix, completing the three-episode arc from evidence suppression through science burial to the written memo
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If AI-driven attention extraction is structural and intensifying, what combination of regulation, system design, and individual practice can preserve the human capacity for self-directed attention — and is preservation the right goal, or must we build new frameworks for autonomy in an...
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Who the Anti-Federalists were, the structural case they made against the proposed Constitution during the ratification debates of 1787-1788, and why their arguments deserve the same serious engagement given to the Federalist Papers
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The leaded gasoline decision: how GM, Standard Oil, and DuPont promoted tetraethyl lead for over fifty years while suppressing Clair Patterson's research through industry-funded counter-research, regulatory capture, and institutional retaliation — the template for manufactured doubt
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Empirical scrutiny of AI-driven attention extraction — testing whether it degrades human autonomy beyond what prior media technologies caused, or whether human adaptive capacity renders the concern another technopanic
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Standalone listener-response episode following the five-part Federalist Blueprint series, where Thatcher Stone synthesizes his series conclusions and takes five callers who stress-test his analysis from originalist, progressive, pragmatist, libertarian, and centrist perspectives.
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The long consequences of the Central Asian trade corridors opened by Zhang Qian's failed diplomatic mission — Buddhism's eastward movement, papermaking's westward transmission, plague pathways, the routes' decline through specific political decisions, Ferdinand von Richthofen's coinage of the...