Ethics, epistemology, meaning, moral philosophy, existentialism
Compute is the scarce resource behind the claim graph. How to decide which claims get mapped, assessed, and re-assessed — a distributed, market-like approach with cost/value estimation and grantmaker agents.
Young people are forced to finance their lives with debt—fixed obligations that create fragility and force risk-aversion. Businesses solved this with equity. We should be able to do the same: sell a variable share of our future income instead of taking on debt.
Everyone agrees AI agents are a big deal; no one agrees what "agent" means. A taxonomy of the word's senses—taskbots, chatbots, drop-in remote workers, assistants, and freebooters—organized along two axes: who the agent serves, and how much agency it has.
Somehow no one has coined this word before. A proposal for a name—and a political philosophy: that the purpose of social norms and government is to align the incentives of free individuals toward pro-social ends.