Essays

A(G)I, The Great Divergence, and Technological Lock-In

AI boosters would likely point to Elvin’s thesis as a lesson to learn from; as a reason to accelerate the adoption and development of AI and AGI…

Oct 19, 2025 • Ted Theisinger

Ecological Arbitration and the Universal Mind

If one envisions an overlapping of systems, much like we have in the human domain today, of legal, political, and economic structures, the necessary…

Oct 5, 2025 • Ted Theisinger

The Archbishops of AI

Whether they like it or not — and they surely do, given their zealous self-congratulatory antics — the leaders of big tech firms have been elevated to…

Aug 28, 2025 • Ted Theisinger

The Enshittification of Nature and the Limits of State Intervention

Proponents of private solutions are backed by the (un)imaginative default of private capital — capital that holds the power of financial resource…

May 21, 2025 • Ted Theisinger

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