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Conversations, field notes and working research pages about what people might do with abundant capability: useful AI, robots, energy, tools, communities, care and exploration.
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What Happens to All That Compute?
AI may become dramatically more efficient at the same time as computation spreads through agents, robots, infrastructure, science and the physical world. This working page follows where the demand goes.
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If the Cost of Living Approaches Zero
What happens to money when capable machines and abundant production remove much of the scarcity cost?
What Are We Talking To?
AI minds, memory, identity and intelligence distributed across many bodies and devices.
My Agent Made Me Do It
Delegated authority, autonomous decisions and the new shape of responsibility.
Can an AI Be Generous?
Courtesy, discretion and the risk of allowing a machine to depart from the safe default.
When Abundance Makes Us More Economical
How intelligent systems might distinguish useful energy from pointless waste.
Zardoz and the Problem of Abundance
Immortality, endless energy and the question of what remains worth doing when survival becomes easy.
Would You Live in Antarctica?
When abundant energy and autonomous systems make remote places technically habitable, should we live there?
Who Farms When Machines Do the Farming?
Autonomous farms, precision food production and the future role of the farmer.
Would You Keep Your Brain and Replace Everything Else?
Synthetic bodies, biological continuity and the question of what makes a person the same person.
When Medicine Becomes Human Design
Prevention, gene editing, longevity and the moment health becomes personal specification.
Why the Future Might Choose Crocs
What comfort, simplicity and an unexpectedly popular clog reveal about forecasting the future.
Agent Architecture
Nickabot, Nitram and the distinction between an intended architecture and verified implementation.
The Future Doesn't Mean Leaving Country
How technology might preserve remote choice, culture and connection rather than requiring people to relocate.
Future Memoirs
The series format: explore a changed civilisation through one believable person's life.
When AI Can Simulate the Future
World models, consequence modelling and the transition from answering to planning.
The End of Surprise Violence
AI situational intelligence, graduated intervention and the boundary between safety and control.
What If Australia Had Veins?
Distributed water, inland possibility and the old human wishes that become design problems when energy is abundant.
The One-Person Corporation
Business agents, organisational scale and the question of who remains accountable.
What Does Humanity Become?
A research framework for remote communities, whole-world models and the human subject of Ends Up Here.
Regressionism: The Future Is What We Can Stop Doing
What abundance lets society remove, simplify or stop maintaining.
When They Bury You, Will They Bury Your Agent With You?
Personal agents, death, inheritance and the boundary between a person and a preserved intelligence.
The Post-Agentic Transition Act
A research agenda for law, access, autonomy and distribution during the agentic transition.
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