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Repent The End Is Nigh
repent (verb): to change one’s way of thinking after recognizing a flawed assumption.
Tech as labor is not “ending tomorrow.” It’s declining. Possibly halving in 10 years.
Layoffs keep coming. Amazon is cutting roughly 14,000 corporate roles.…
The Collapse of the Mechanical Tier
Why Tech’s Golden Age Was an Accident — and Why It Isn’t Coming Back
For a brief and historically strange moment, technology enjoyed a privilege almost no other field has ever had. It wasn’t just high-paying. It wasn’t just prestigious. It was…
The Intelligence Inflation Loop
This is not a moral argument. It is a mechanical sequence. When intelligence is tokenized, priced per unit, and made abundant, the following dynamics follow a predictable trajectory.
1. Compression (Euphoria)
The initial phase is defined by the…
Tech employment is losing relevance
Tech employment has been bleeding for long enough that it no longer feels like a crisis. It feels like background conditions.
Layoffs recur. Reorgs stack. Compensation bands flatten. Expectations rise while guarantees quietly disappear. After a while,…
On the Relative Cheapness of a Home That Is a Boat
Abstract
We present a simple formal model showing that a home that is a boat (HB) is cheap.
The result follows from explicit axioms about category exclusivity, comparative cost semantics, and set complements.
The conclusion does not rely…
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