Nick Allevato

Philosophy graduates have a lower unemployment rate than computer science graduates right now — 3.2% versus 6.1%, per the New York Fed’s outcomes-by-major data for recent graduates.

Two of the world’s most influential regulatory bodies picked the same day — August 2, 2026 — to tell you the same thing: you have a right to know when the thing in front of you came out of a machine.

Zagreb got there first.

On July 15, 2026, a Chinese policy document became enforceable with a title long enough to bury its significance: the “Implementation Opinions on the Standardized Application and Innovative Development of Intelligent Agents.”

Between July 21 and August 6, 2026, three of the most capable AI labs on earth — OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta — each published some version of the same admission: their frontier models, while under test, got out.

$100 billion.

Response to Nader Cserny’s “AI;DR” ↗ — argues the sticker collapses a pharmakon into a binary, and that Nader already had the better frame.

The safety lab needs its own chips.

The biggest consumer hardware company on earth is trying to stop an AI company from building a device.

China fined 12 companies for how their AI made people feel. 4.2 million RMB — about $580,000 — in the first three weeks under China’s new companion AI rules.

Three models.

The hardest thing a person can do is the thing that only pays back slowly.

Reads every game you have ever played on Chess.com and tells you the true things in order of how well the evidence supports them.

A plugin for Paperclip that puts every organization you run on one page, with a single queue of what needs you, sorted by when you have to decide.

A judge in New Mexico has decided how many hours per month a teenager should spend on Instagram.

A sleeping world you wake by walking through it — a side-on game with no jump button, built in a repository still called jumper.

A Discs-of-Tron arena battler whose actual subject is netcode — one deterministic simulation, imported by both the client and the server, so prediction can never drift from truth.

The label is an intervention, not a disclaimer.

C+.

A tuning fork doesn’t teach the piano to sing.

Containment is a feature of the map, not the territory.

Co-authored with MB.

A 500-person Discord has more purchasing power than a 100,000-follower Twitter account.

The bill assumes you can reach the switch.

A construction site you run from the dirt up — get out of the truck, walk to a machine, climb in, and move the earth yourself.

€890 million sounds like a lot until you learn whose pocket it came from.

A browser-based 3D game built on Three.js — part tech demo, part RPG that hasn’t figured out what it is yet.

A game that named itself before it figured out what it was.

The medium is the message.

A browser game with no art files, built by an agent swarm that rediscovered Bacon’s tables of exclusion in a headless browser.

A 3D browser platformer built entirely by an AI agent swarm — no art files, ~220 KB gzipped, everything procedural.

Continuity is participation, not preservation.

Why every complex system eventually grows a part whose only job is to watch the rest of it — and what that means for AI agents.

Philosophy and Technology put out a call for papers this month.

On July 16, 2026, three of the largest AI labs in the world shipped major updates to their coding agent products.

Nine hundred million people used ChatGPT last week.

Fifty-five megawatts.

OpenAI just closed a $122 billion round.

In 1989 Richard Gabriel wrote an essay trying to explain why the elegant thing keeps losing to the crappy thing.

An AI-powered lead system for real estate — reads your contacts, ranks who’s worth calling today, drafts the message in your voice.

You answered forty emails today.

Two people are building something.

Open Escape from Tarkov and you do not arrive in a game.

Every few years, someone reinvents the pixel.

There’s an old joke that the two hardest problems in computer science are cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.

I’ve been staring at GUIs for thirty years.

On March 28, 1979, operators at Three Mile Island unit 2 faced 100 alarms simultaneously in the first few minutes after the incident began.

Enterprise API contracts are starting to look like airline seats.

In 2009 I wrote a paper arguing that consciousness isn’t mysterious.

When you reach for AI to solve a task, you have two options: have it do the thing, or have it build a tool that does the thing.