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There’s something about modern life that many of us have noticed, but rarely sit with long enough to articulate clearly. It lingers at the edge of awareness as a faint restlessness, a subtle fatigue that doesn’t quite align with how materially comfortable and technologically advanced our world has become. At some point over the last two decades, we have allowed our existence to become a performance. Not in the theatrical sense, we are not suddenly all actors memorising lines

When intelligence becomes augmented I find most conversations about AI completely misleading, not because people are deliberately trying to distort reality, but because the cultural environment we now exist inside rewards distortion. Narratives gravitate towards hype, fear, salvation and catastrophe, because people love extremes. As a result, algorithms prioritise extreme views on social media. The result is that nuance gets squeezed out, balance comes across as boring, and c

Not dystopia. Not utopia. Something else. Throughout this series I have argued that optimisation is not a preference but an emergent property of intelligence. I have also suggested that once competition and abstraction enter the picture, friction becomes something we instinctively remove. This is fuelled by capitalism and power - both amplify optimisation until acceleration becomes the default setting of civilisation. And importantly, I have also stated my belief that optimi