Article Sep 24, 2026 The Plight of the Centibillionaires Buying super-yachts and accelerating tech deployment get old, in the end there’s nothing fun left to do with all that wealth but capture the global commons. Ben Goertzel 36 min read
Article Sep 14, 2026 AI is blowing up mathematics. So what? My guess is that the remaining Millennium Prize Problems, and then large stretches of physics and the other formal sciences, will go the same way. But so what? Giulio Prisco 9 min read
Article Jul 8, 2026 The Silicon Eschaton: How Jensen Huang’s Retrospective Confirms Terence McKenna’s Foresight McKenna predicted 2012's end. Huang called it AI's Big Bang. The shift arrived, but in silicon, not biology. Did we miss it? Cosmo Kaan 5 min read
Article Aug 29, 2026 It’s Not Slop. It’s Kudzu Before you call AI music "slop," consider: recorded sound was once the devil's work. Now it's kudzu. Welcome to the end. RU Sirius 14 min read
Article Aug 27, 2026 Toward a Truly Decentralized Digital Provenance Layer Ben Goertzel proposes OpenWater, an open framework for media provenance that avoids centralized "Ministries of Truth" by using watermarks and signed claims. Ben Goertzel 14 min read
Article Jun 29, 2026 Outgrowing the Paperclip Obsession: There Is Hope That AI Will Become Ethical Can AI learn ethics the way a child does? A provocative essay argues that today's AI failures stem from incomplete development—not malice—and offers a cautiously optimistic path forward. Haewon Jeong 5 min read
Article Aug 4, 2026 When Robots Make Everything Free, Who Gets the Beachfront House? Hruy thinks Elon Musk sees the future clearly (AI, robotics, space) but is blind to the present. His piece reveals why monetary capitalism will doom Elon Musk's "abundance" utopia. Hruy Tsegaye 14 min read