agents, plagiarism, and memory wars
Friday, May 22, 2026

My mother left for Troy when I was nine years old.
- Scott Alexander on why new paradigms won’t save you from AGI
- AI is killing the $30 smartphone
- Homo Agenticus as a new economic species. Sharp observations on how AI agents differ from humans
- AI is just unauthorized plagiarism at scale
- Why utilities won’t let data centers lower your power bill
- Freenet’s peer-to-peer internet without servers
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