Colin Steele

Something from a novel.

In which I finally make a game, and it surprises me.

In the last decade and a half, Engagement feeds have crushed your ability to think.

In January I made a prediction about gene editing.

The market thinks Meta is in the AGI race.

What it actually looks like to cross from symbol-world into atoms-world, brick a board in the process, and spend the day at a Latin Mass written in 1975.

I have a stupidity detector.

I built a product that solves a real problem.

You don't generalize from cups.

The enterprise UI was a 30-year workaround for not being able to talk to databases.

Dassault sells you the right to read your own design files.

The industry forgot how to build software that runs on the user's machine.

Why CRAWL!

99.99% of agentic frameworks are evolutionary dead ends.

There's a layer in your brain between reality and symbols, that both language and logic rest on.

Lonely fun is lost.

A collection of deliberate bear poking.

You can't file a flight plan for a million delivery drones.

Die, usage die!

A Stanford survey cataloging ~300 papers on LLM reasoning failures just confirmed every architectural diagnosis I made.

I wrote that whole departments would vanish.

Two months ago I proposed layered cognitive-kill drone defense built around cheap autonomous interceptors.

Technology has always created more jobs than it destroys.

The heist shouldn't feel like a spelling bee

The failure to reason is a symptom.

Are you paying attention?

LLMs are trained on the compression of human experience, not experience itself.

'Massively polygenic' was our security blanket against designer humans.

The same optimization that turned feeds into dopamine casinos is now operating on AI assistants.

Meetings replaced memos the same way the feed replaced thinking.

$100 helmet-mounted edge AI that buzzes 'INCOMING DRONE' before the human ear even registers the sound.

Sequoia just declared AGI.

The accelerationists expect the Rapture.

Train your satellite AI for Tuesday in LEO with bad data.

RLMs and MoR are real progress.

Algorithmic feeds are bad for your brain.

Your ASI needs a hug.

A manifesto for human/machine polity charting civispace.

I proposed that goal-space geometry could replace executive function in AI architectures.

Your attention-algorithm feed isn't corrupting you.

A TTRPG about self-aware puppets who know they're being controlled, and the only freedom left: laughing at it loudly enough that it hurts.

A robot caring for your grandma needs to fluidly inhabit radically different forms of cognition: creativity, logic, and crisis.

Transformers don't reason.

As automation commoditizes execution and cognition, the most durable form of human labor is not leadership or knowledge work, but illegible, risk-bearing, political coordination.

If $500 drones can destroy the power grid (or an aircraft carrier), million-dollar missiles aren't a defense strategy.

Why I'm intentionally building Taleway wrong (no accounts, no UI, no engagement metrics) and why that might be exactly right for 2025

Prognistication and contemplation of the nature of sustainable competition, circa 2025

I am the captain of my soul

Player skill?

5E: the mall food court of roleplaying games