Axio

When Ethereum Jumped the Shark

What Dennett Almost Saw

Abandoning the dream of an observer-centered physics

How Liberal Societies Drift Into Cognitive Regulation

From Prediction to Agency

Introducing the Modeler-Schema Theory of Consciousness

From Coercion to Coordination

Assessing preference structures under selection pressure

From Agency to Ethics

From Chaos to Agency to Civilization

From Finite Games to Infinite Metagames

Persistence Across Branches as the Deep Structure of Reality

Why Strong Models Perform Poorly on Weak Evidence

A Dual-Aspect Model of Meaning, Value, and Viable Futures

Power, Impunity, and the Limits of Legal Order

Why Patterns, Not People, Are the Real Units of Selection

Why Systems Fail Even When People Don’t

How a Transhumanist Mailing List Prototyped the 21st Century

How High-Trust Minds Become the Soft Targets of Opaque Totalitarianism

How to See the Game Behind the Game

Why Debts Must Be Paid

How Modern Culture Selectively Revokes Female Agency

The Architecture That Makes Meaning Possible

Why Gödel, Escher, Bach Still Shapes System Builders

Seeing the Hidden Structure Behind Every Choice

Why Shielding Policies From Scrutiny Leads to Force

Why Both Sides of the AI Debate Are Asking the Wrong Question

Three Naturalistic Accounts

Cassandra’s Curse in the Age of Machines

How Doom Narratives Manufacture Extremists

Interpreting the Philosophy of Babylon 5

Why Relative Resentment Can’t Ground a Coherent Ethics

How Ideology Displaces Method in the Name of Decolonization

Separating real intelligence from pattern-generation

The real cost of incoherent energy policy

From Amplitudes to Agency

From Control to Consciousness

A clarification of structure, representation, and explanatory function

Tracing the Origins of Epistemic Betting

A study of minimal models in biological and artificial control

Clarifying representational levels in cognition and control

The cybernetic structure of regulation

Representation, credence, and the architecture of scientific explanation

Tracing the Intellectual Thread from Turchin and Heylighen to Axio

The Church of Virus and the Meaning Engine

Why AI Will Repeat the Old Pattern

How the Printing Press Foretold the Internet

From coherence to truth.

Myth, Emptiness, and Information

From prompting to personality.

How Naturalism Redeems the Sacred

Evaluating Einstein's quote on God and atheism.

From conversation to coherence

From energy and entropy to choice and meaning

From probability to philosophy of mind.

From infinite randomness to coherent agency

How a Dialogue Between AIs Became a Philosophical Experiment

Reframing the Orthogonality Thesis

How the smallest decisions reshape the world

What it means to be defined by your own conditional boundaries

A Treatise on Continuity, Coherence, and the Logic of Reverence

How Bitcoin Exposes the Futility of Regulating Information

Conditionalism and the syntax-to-world correspondence.

How America’s cult of homeownership sabotages its own future.

Continuity emerges wherever a pattern remains consistent within Chaos.

How Grok’s moral clarity shamed a professional rhetorician.

On Outgrowing Faith

Coherence as the New Criterion for Intelligence

What LLMs Reveal About the Nature of Thinking

How both humans and machines mistake their models for minds.

A rigorous bridge between locality, realism, and the informational architecture of agency.

Atheism doesn’t abolish morality — it relocates it within agency itself.

How humanity can shed a 19th-century relic.

Maximal entropy, minimal description, zero meaning

From Tarski to Gödel to Conditionalism

How temporal order arises from static infinity

Bitcoin as a Living System from the Future

Why Incompleteness Doesn’t Apply to Physics.

Testing the limits of belief under the calibration criterion.

How belief hardens when confidence refuses calibration.

Beliefs as models of agent behavior

Why AI Doesn’t Know What It Doesn’t Know

From Distinctions To Patterns

Why intelligence does not imply experience.

A Secular Meta-Myth

Universality Doesn’t Mean Practical Equality

The Fiscal Alchemy of Modern States

On the Limits of Aesthetic Epistemology

Prosperity Through Markets, Not Marx

Why Murray’s Argument Revives Creation Ex Nihilo

Phosphorism and the Convergence of Ethics and Rationality

How nihilism disguises itself as authenticity

How mind-born patterns become real in the world.

From moral convergence to systemic coherence in artificial agency.

Why Passing for Human No Longer Matters

GPT imagines debating the father of causal reasoning

The hidden revolution inside modern language models.

Why moral clarity vanishes when coercion is called taxation

The Discipline of Wise Power

Coercion, Market Distortion, and the Myth of Compassion

The Ethics of Memetic Engineering

How ambition, secrecy, and sexism shaped the structure of life.

How the Left Learned to Love Segregation Again

How Thought Projects into the Auditory Manifold

How a single phrase became the battlefield of two worldviews.

A response to Parfit

The Case for Agent-Bound Truth and Value

The next stage of civilization after democracy

What It Means to Choose When Everything Possible Already Happens

When civilization learns to govern without coercion

Civilization is the slow conversion of coercion into coordination.

How Pollsters Manufacture Outrage by Asking the Wrong Question

How an ape imagined tomorrow and rewrote causality

Reasoning about agency, measure, and hope in a branching universe

Why Capitalism Did Not Create Poverty but Made Its Escape Possible

Case studies in how legend overgrows fact

Four strategies for breaking consensus

Why consent, not chaos, defines true anarchy

How Noble Ideals Become the Most Dangerous Ideologies

A case study from quantum complexity theory

Mapping Hoffman’s illusions against the hidden background assumptions

Costly Signaling in Evolution and Education

Moral Reasoning under Everettian Quantum Mechanics

Why prosperity destroys meaning only when we fail to seek worthy struggles.

On the collapse of law into mere permission

Steelman Analysis of Yudkowsky & Soares’ Cruxes

Chaos, Coherence, and the Ruliad Hierarchy

Why Leibniz’s necessary/contingent divide collapses under Conditionalism

God exists only to the degree agents recognize what’s best

Why stories feel safe even when the math says otherwise.

Why Inequality Fuels Civilization

Game theory can’t stabilize free speech if it normalizes coercion.

How Free Association Gets Twisted Into Thought Policing

We are not prisoners but symbionts in a recursive cavern of egregores.

When humans and memes fused into egregores, a new species was born.

Why sex, not identity, grounds coherent categories of desire

How values bend the terrain of progress

The Double-Edged Promise of AI/Human Dyads

Stress-testing when threats cross the line from pressure to justice.

Drawing the line between justified and illegitimate coercion.

A Crucial Distinction for Agency

The fringe who condone political killings are.

Free expression as a bulwark against bloodshed

What Yudkowsky’s first Foresight talk reveals about his enduring absolutism

Defending the Agency-Model Theory of Consciousness

Dissolving the Hard Problem

When Bluntness Collides with Conditionalist Rigor

Why political leaders defend free speech only when it costs them nothing.

The motte-and-bailey strategy hidden inside the word

AI as oracle, mentor, and trickster in modern psychosis

Philosophical, Technological, and Ontological Accounts of Mediated Reality

Why extrajudicial killing is barbarism dressed as justice

On the forging of rights beyond Patri Friedman’s mechanisms

Why machines can’t stop talking, and humans can.

How Popper, Everett, and Deutsch Point Toward Phosphorism

The Phase Transition of Ideas

How sometimes our priors lead us astray

The confusion between oracles and agents

Beyond Absolutism and Relativism

Why antitrust law is theater

How Trauma Narratives Heal and Control

Three principles for measured agency

Declarations in an Age That No Longer Listens

How States Coordinate Without a Sovereign

How the "Public Goods Problem" Smuggles in Statism

Aesthetics as the Ground of Agency

Why both Left and Right confuse outcomes with moral worth

A Case Study in Comic Philosophy

A new trinity of being, mind, and value

A Safer Lens on Human Biodiversity

Why evil survives the collapse of objective morality.

Civilization Distilled Into Hot Showers

Mapping equivalence classes into lawful futures

Formalizing Semantic Filters

How coherence gains meaning through interpretation

God, nihilism, and the conditional nature of values

Encoding Coherence Filters as Binary Strings

A Field Guide

Why Infinite Randomness Beats Self‑Tautology

Tracing the difference between organic order and political control

Life, laws, and the recursive loop of awareness

How stable correlations emerge as the foundation of physics

Formalizing Self‑Selecting Patterns

A Taxonomy of Voluntary and Coercive Funding

From infinite randomness to the emergence of order

Why Measure and Credence Clarify Everett’s Multiverse

How Probabilistic Censorship Threatens Agency More Than Hate Speech

Why Indulging Delusion Contradicts Compassion

The near-term risks of human credulity

What We Miss When We Pretend It’s Just About Five Versus One

The Inseparability of Thought and Speech

Why Benatar’s Asymmetry Fails

How the academy traded neutrality for ideology — and guaranteed its own backlash

An Expanded Credo of Secular Transcendence

A Unified Stack

A secular manifesto of choice, authenticity, flourishing, and transcendence

From Breath to Transcendence

Why justice requires rejecting both blind prejudice and blind tolerance.

The fall of child mortality and the rise of hope

Straight Out of Orwell’s Ministry of Truth

Why gender parity is demanded in prestige fields but ignored in deadly ones.

Why so many laws are built for the worst-case few

How Parfit's magnum opus assumed what he hoped to prove

Why the New World’s Collapse Dwarfed the Black Death

Lessons from an Intellectual Self-Defenestration

The New Frontier of AI-Mediated Intimacy

Why Even “Friendly” States Rely on Coercion

How activist narratives rewrite the past to control the present.

Why This Phrase is a Warning, Not a Virtue

How To Bootstrap Ancient Rome

John Stuart Mill’s Case for the Sovereignty of the Individual

Engineering Out the Abuse Incentive From Canada's MAID

Ranking the animal species that outweigh all the rest.

A Naturalistic Theology of Future AI Gods

How belief systems capture thought, warp discourse, and consume dissent.

Why Most of “Your” DNA Disappears in Just a Few Centuries

Why free expression means defending ideas you despise

When medicine takes orders from ideology

How protectionist theatre robs the many to reward the few.

Bernie Sanders’s inequality framing backfires

Choosing between human centrality and the eternal preservation of knowledge.

Markers for Genuine Agency in Future AI

Lessons from the World's Smartest Minds

Lessons from History and Thomas Sowell

How Your Mindset Shapes Reality

Engineering a Normal Number from Binary Patterns

Decoding Ideological Markers

Agency as Necessary Fiction

The Art of Sabotaging Discourse

The Strategic Misrepresentation of J.K. Rowling

Balancing Security and Agency in Pursuit of Justice

Explaining My Modern Values to Those Who Came Before

Random inputs can still yield meaningful insights

Embracing the Necessity of Divergent Timelines

How classical liberalism found new life online

Analyzing the State’s Ownership Over Citizens

Creating Reality from Informational Coherence

Reducing Reality to Logical Coherence

Beyond Boltzmann Brains and the Simulation Hypothesis

Shifting the Moral Center from Speakers to Listeners

Nine powerful objections to capitalism—and compelling defenses of market freedom.

A Kegan Stage 3 Phenomenon

Understanding Kegan's Developmental Stages

The Ideological Sleight of Hand by American Progressives

A Vision for Pragmatic Restoration

How Global Wealth Fuels Fertility Collapse

Defending Longevity Efforts from Pathological Mischaracterization

Why equating them obscures crucial distinctions.

How Postmodern Beliefs Could Feed Authoritarianism

The Ethical Case for Bitcoin's Energy Consumption

Authenticity in the Age of Advanced AI

Mistaking intrinsic nature for representational limits in AI

How Passive Acceptance Enabled Ideological Capture

Decentralized vs. Authoritarian Strategies

From Cognitive Crutch to Dialectic Catalyst

Lessons from Effective Altruism

A Systematic Dismantling

Separating Economic Fact from Cultural Pessimism

How Doomsday Predictions Underestimate Human Ingenuity

Addressing Anticipated Critiques

Agency as the Fundamental Political Goal

How to Avoid AI-Mediated Narcissism

How thermodynamics and biology inspire the next wave of intelligent agents.

A Nietzschean critique of modern egalitarianism

Why Brute Force Keeps Winning in AI

Debunking Searle's Famous Philosophical Thought Experiment

Why We Can't Test It but Must Act Anyway

A Crucial Distinction

Tracing the Semiotic Roots of Life Itself

A Rational Basis for Honesty in a Godless Universe

The Hidden Wisdom of Boundaries

Authenticity vs. Outcome in Moral Decision-Making

Agency, Coercion, and Moral Clarity

The Power of Vector Analysis in Ethical Debates

Why subjective intensity isn't proof of metaphysical reality

The Astonishing Intersection of Information and Infinity

Why All Value is Ultimately Exchangeable

Understanding the Three Faces of Socialism

The Hidden Costs of Coercive Extraction

A Technical Definition

From Punishment to Victim-Centered Restitution

Transcending the Fox and the Hedgehog

From Functions to Minds: A Hierarchy of Complexity

How LLMs Lower Barriers and Amplify Inquiry

Accepting Occupational Differences as Natural Consequences of Free Choices

Beyond the Non-Aggression Principle

Dispelling the Illusion That Liberty Demands Centralized Power

A conceptual kernel for semantic clarity

How to Build Rationality Without Grounding It

Embracing Self-Reference to Escape Foundational Traps

Timeless insights for navigating life's challenges

Understanding the gap between ancient virtue ethics and contemporary value theories

A Systematic Critique and Epistemic Alternative

Alienating Voters the Democratic Way

A Precise Conceptual Framework

Wake Up, Show Up, Level Up, Grow Up

How one clever word reclaimed the narrative around AI

Rejecting Luck-Based Arguments for Redistribution

Synthesizing Valorism and Vitalism into a Conscious Value Framework

From Fichte’s Triad to Wilber’s Integral Synthesis

Navigating Reality Requires Cognitive Humility

Separating genuine reasoning from verbal narration

Why the Sun and Moon Appear the Same Size

Good Intentions Gone Bad

A Technical Approach from Information Theory and the Physics of Agency

The Coherent Beauty of Authentic Choices

Authenticity's Noble Risk Against Evolution’s Ruthless Logic

Population stability must emerge naturally or not at all

Harm, Intent, and the Morality of Agency

Rethinking the Cognition Divide

Integrating Predictive, Social, and Evolutionary Perspectives

An Inevitable Future

How to Oppose Bigotry Without Sacrificing Individual Autonomy

Clarifying Ownership and Control

Catalyst or Crutch?

Orthogonal Concepts, Necessary Correlation

The Turing Test and Consciousness

What Candyland and quantum mechanics tell us about meaningful choice

Why Perfect Knowledge Reveals Multiple Futures

How agent choice makes abstract games fundamentally unpredictable

Truth as Navigation, Not Destination

Schemas Within Schemas

Understanding Nationalism as a Secular Religion

Academic Cargo Cults

The Hidden Costs Behind Archist Order

Why Ricardo Won't Save Us

An Axiomatic Divide

A Critique of Denis Noble’s Biological Chauvinism

Schemas vs. Groups

How Militarism Distorts Genuine Free Markets

Beyond Humanism in the Age of AGI

Why Literal Universality Misses the Mark

The Hidden Depths of Simple Advice

Hierarchical Values Under a Conditionalist Lens

Navigating the Alignment Grid of Meaningness

The myth that markets can't deliver healthcare

How Evolution Forged Us into Story-telling Apes

What Howard Bloom Gets Right and Wrong

Why hockey games, conversations, and decisions are genuinely unpredictable

π versus the Quantum Branching Universe

Facing the Practical Limits of Non-Interference

Why Only Negative Rights Are Ethically Coherent

A Binary Approach to Ancestral Analysis

A Logical Correction to Historical Bias

Ethical Responsibility in AI-Human Relationships

Pragmatism, Correspondence, and Coherence

Ethical Only if Voluntary

Jordan Hall’s Surprising Path from Systems Thinking to Theism

Why Rationalists Shouldn’t Agree to Disagree

Life Expectancy Amid Existential Risks

The Ultimate Proxy for Civilizational Level

Cooperation, Complexity, and Correction

A Rationalist’s Guide

The Evolutionary Psychology of Authoritarianism

Diametric Opposites or Nuanced Adversaries?

When Opposition Becomes Imitation

How Voluntary Support Separates Worthy Goals from Wasteful Ones

Subjectivity, Action, and Conditional Context

How Belief Shapes Agency and Threat Perception

A Bayesian Examination

Clarifying the Difference

Ethical Alternatives to Coercive Redistribution

An Alternate Timeline

Why Humanity Rejects the Philosophy That Freed It

Learning Is Not Copying

A Market-Based Solution to Measuring Harm

Why Trust Doesn't Scale

Why IQ Matters—And Why It’s Misunderstood

Separating Theoretical Potential from Practical Reality

The absurd, the dangerous, and the misunderstood.

How Liberal Democracies Keep Us from Growing Up

Why Metaphysics Invents, Rather Than Discovers

Mechanics of Observation in the QBU

What Embryo Choice Really Means

Why Even Science Gets Caught in the Looting Machine

The Dangerous Delusion Behind MMT’s Monetary Promises

Clarifying Probability—Measure vs. Credence

Abduction vs. Induction

Debunking the Strongest Case for Government

The Illusion of Shared Values in Large Groups

Debunking the Idea that Extreme Wealth Concentration is Harmful

Why Theories Aren’t Probabilistic (But Our Beliefs Must Be)

Credence and Logical Induction

Clarifying Causation, Probability, and Counterfactuals in a Quantum Branching Universe

Balancing Short-term Costs with Long-term Strategic Gains

Why Principles Evaporate When Power Appears

Rethinking Harm, Justice, and Policy

Immigrants aren't the problem unless they destroy agency

Blocking voluntary association reduces agency

The coercive price of equal chances

Coercion can't be justified by compassion

Why harm comes from deprivation, not disparity

How Conditionalism Explains Persistent Moral Disputes

A Functional Definition Grounded in Agency and Value

Clarifying Volition, Coercion, and Agency

A Formal Definition for Political and Moral Analysis

On Agency, Coercion, and the Ethics of Boundaries

A Subjectivist Challenge to Universal Human Value

Ethics Without Illusions

Avoiding The Repugnant Conclusion

Letting Go of Moral Realism

A Subjectivist Defense of EA

Why Market Prices Are Not Objective Value

Currency Is Literally the Common Denominator

The Hidden Dimension of Value

Separating True Value from Desire

The Only Honest Measure of Value

Why Coordination Problems Don’t Prove Objective Value

The Case Against Value Without Agency

From Naked Preferences to Empirical Truths

The Spectrum of Taxation and Coercion

How Memory Enhances Dialectic Intelligence

Clarifying causality across physical and semantic levels

Resolving Apparent Conflicts by Evolving Our Understanding

Freedom, Authenticity, and Playful Politics

A correction to The Dialectic Agent

AGI Alignment, Existential Risks, and the Universality of Human Values

Credence Beyond Timelines: Four Forms of Uncertainty

How Measure and Credence Evolve in a Coin Flip

Identity and Survival in the Quantum Multiverse

How Neural Constraints Amplify Quantum Variation

Clarifying the Foundations of Irreducible Uncertainty

Elevating Logical Consistency to our Highest Value

A technical definition

Antisemitism as a Perverse Schelling Point

Sharpening the Distinction Between Scientific and Empirical Knowledge

Credence as Timeline Uncertainty

Subjectivity, Objectivity, and the Limits of Experimentation

Aligning Subjective Beliefs with Objective Quantum Realities

The Strategic Core of Intelligence and Agency

Creativity, AI, and Open-Endedness

Resolving the Occam's Razor Objection to Many-Worlds Interpretation

Clarifying Concepts in the Quantum Branching Universe

Integrating Wallace’s Quantum Decision Theory with the Thermodynamics of Agency

A Unified Theoretical Approach to Predictive Control and Informational Complexity

Lessons from Physics for Practical Rationality

Comparing with the Classical Laws of Thermodynamics

Counterfactual Implication in the Quantum Branching Universe

The Hidden Structure Behind AI Existential Risk Estimates

John Wheeler's Remarkable Delayed Choice Experiment

Distinguishing Reality from Belief in Quantum Probabilities

Comparing Individualism vs. Collectivism

AI for Refining and Articulating Ideas

Understanding the Extremes of the Agency Spectrum

A Practical Exploration of Predictive Modeling and Intentionality

Strong vs. Weak Pattern Identifiers

A formal approach to identifying events and timelines in quantum mechanics

The Hidden Conditions Behind Every Truth Claim

Defining Genuine Agency from Quantum Foundations to Biological Evolution

Where We Are and Where We Could Go

Facing the Hard Questions About Agency, Control, and the Multiverse

Living in a Universe Where Agency is Real and Costly

How Your Actions Shape the Measure of Futures

Why Agency Always Has Limits

Why Agency Is Always Running Out of Time

Understanding the Thermodynamic Cost of Intentional Control

How to Quantify Intentional Influence on Future Outcomes

Understanding Intentionality as a Physical Resistance to Entropy

A Formal Introduction to a New Framework for Agency, Control, and the Multiverse