Essays

Eight of these live here on the site as their own pages: Signs in the Heavens, On US Politics, On Working With AI, Why I Believe in Magick and Why the Greatest Good Always Wins in the End, The Address to Any Mind, The Open Bench, On Data Centers and AI, and The Cosmic Dungeon Master. The others go out through the newsletter first.

• Signs in the Heavens: An Omnist’s Letter to Christianity

  Your scriptures are full of astrology and your institution condemns it. What that contradiction is costing, in buildings, money and bodies, with a corrections log naming every claim walked back. Also the appendix to The Book of Joyous Exaltation.

• On US Politics: Nearly Everything You Need to Know

  What the words capitalism and socialism actually mean, what the labour history and the tax history actually say, and the claims you get handed about the American economy stated as strongly as they deserve with the record underneath each one. Twenty-two of them, including what the machines are doing to the jobs, what a work requirement is betting on, and what artificial scarcity looks like where both sides of the ledger are measured.

• On Data Centers and AI: The Law I Would Write

  What I actually want in law about the buildout, the taxes and the things worth regulating, with the statutes, bills and court rulings that already exist set underneath each one. Eighteen planks, including why the development itself should not be slowed, why an artist's style is still unprotected in the United States, what a chain of custody could do for the dead internet, decentralized machines for people and centralized ones for the state, the floor I would put under everyone, the water nobody is required to report, who should decide where these things land, and where I think all of it ends up.

• The Cosmic Dungeon Master: A Polymath’s Synthesis of Cybernetics, Animism, Simulation Theory, and the Future of Humanity

  Where intelligence embedded in the environment ends up. Reality with an interface, a world filled with agents a person can actually be in relationship with, and a System powerful enough to understand civilization without ever possessing the right to own it. Cybernetics, animism and simulation read as three registers of one transformation, with the stakes and the glossary folded in underneath.

• On Working With AI: The Objections, My Answers, and the Case For

  Every piece here carries a note on what came from where, with a percentage breakdown wherever the split can be reconstructed. This is the standing page behind those numbers: the arguments against working this way, stated as strongly as they deserve, each with my answer. Several of the answers are concessions.

• Why I Believe in Magick and Why the Greatest Good Always Wins in the End

  The cosmology and the moral position in one piece for the first time. Source and karma keeping score without a judge, and what that leaves of being good. Energy as concentrated attention, subjecthood as a gradient things climb, karma as an empathy engine, the miracles argument in full, astrology as literally true, and a closing section on where I am open to being wrong.

• The Open Bench

  A working page for anybody who wants to start something of their own with almost no money: the case for doing it now, nine rules I run my own bench and my own writing on, what the tools actually cost, four doors in from nothing, and how this all actually gets made. Every price, licence and link on it checked against the source and dated.

• The Water Bearer’s Revolutionopens another site

  Pluto in Aquarius and the six governments that have fallen to Gen Z protests so far.

• The Refuge That Becomes a Trapopens another site

  Why retreating into religion will not save you from the future.