Archive - Contraptions

The Ecstasy of Deep Influence

Extending Jonathan Lethem's arguments to the LLM era

21 hrs ago •

Autoamputation Flow

How AI Is Changing Human Nature

Apr 12 •

The Poverty of Abundance

A meta-analysis of a hyperstitional project

Apr 11 •

Terms of Centaur Service

Now I am become Jevons Paradox, Destroyer of Inboxes.

Apr 7 •

To Know is to Stage

Warm Caches in Cold Worlds

Apr 5 •

The Starfish and the Goose

Trade Complexity, Tariff Nationalism, and the Fragile Leviathan

Apr 4 •

LLMs as Index Funds

Language, Homogenization, and the Search for Alpha

Apr 1 •

March 2025

What Makes a Good Teacher?

The timeless question of education beneath the urgent crises of 2025

Mar 31 •

Knowledge Under Siege

Strategic Response in the Age of Institutional Redundancy

Mar 30 •

Ghost Pedagogies and the Architecture of Learning

Mar 29 •

Low Roads to High Places

How desirable futures do come about, but usually in the worst possible ways

Mar 23 •

Strength-Liquidity Tradeoffs in Beliefs

A graphical contraption for mapping beliefs

Mar 15 •

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