Institutional Hardening
Part III establishes the baseline against which all subsequent scenarios are evaluated. It does not yet introduce political change or alternative governance pathways. Instead,…
Hallucinations Are a Trivial Issue
An impossible object, built from sentences. Every joint is locally correct. The figure cannot exist. Drawn in code by Claude (Anthropic) at my…
What We Are Holding Constant
This chapter defines the methodological constants that structure the remainder of this book. These constants are not empirical claims offered for validation, nor normative…
Carbon, Coordination, and Religion
A note to the reader: It is time to return to our strengths! This blog post discusses religion and climate change on two levels that need to be clearly distinguished. First, I argue that religion…
Edge by Edge: How the System Actually Works
A system can be described without being understood. When people talk about pressure, they often imagine something overt and intentional—a demand issued, a rule imposed, a vote taken, a punishment threatened. In…