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Essays on Augmented Human Intelligence, the Wisdom Gap, and the architecture of attention in an AI-mediated world. Read in James Maconochie's own voice. jamesmaconochie.substack.com
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In a previous essay I argued that Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on artificial intelligence did something remarkable and then walked away from it. It reached the architectural diagnosis almost no one reaches, that displacemen
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This is the first of two essays on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas. Part 2 lands this Friday rather than next Tuesday; the argument doesn't survive a week's gap. When the most authoritative moral document e
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The Boot and the Feed The dystopia we have been preparing for has a boot on its face. That is Orwell. The state watches. The state coerces. The state lies and tortures. Resistance is meaningful because the regime is mean
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The Balm on Top In a recent essay translated by Zilan Qian, Wang Peng, a senior expert at the Tencent Research Institute, names the AI race as a narrative choice rather than a scientific path, and identifies UBI as “main
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A note I posted recently about due process sparked a broader thought. I’ll come back to it at the end. The thing people fear most about AI has been happening in politics for decades. Let me explain. Large Language Models
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In a recent piece, Tim Lee offers one of the cleaner arguments I’ve read for why today’s agent architectures are unlikely to produce “AI scientists” anytime soon. His central observation: the implicit knowledge knowledge
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My wife Jen sent me a Boston Globe essay this morning by Michael Shermer, the Skeptic magazine publisher, titled “What is truth, anyway?” I read it twice. I agreed with most of it. And something nagged. Shermer’s toolkit
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The System 1 Moment David Hoze and I had been corresponding since early April about a co-authored essay. Three movements, his philosophical and theological grounding bridging to my structural one, the disagreement betwee
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In the previous two posts, I established that wisdom cannot be accumulated and that AI is structurally precluded from traversing the loop that produces it. This week: what that means for the humans building expertise alo
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Last week, I established that wisdom cannot be accumulated. It must be traversed. This week: what traversal actually requires, and why AI cannot complete it. The Loop In 1890, William James made what remains the most con
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In early 2026, researchers added an important wrinkle to what had been a fairly damning picture of AI’s effect on human reasoning. The original 2024 study was blunt: students who used ChatGPT to research a scientific que
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I want to tell you about a friend of mine. Thomas Johannessen and I met at Imperial College London in 1990. We were students together, young civil engineers convinced we could figure out how complex systems worked. To be
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There is a particular kind of friendship that only makes sense to people who have it. It doesn’t require regular contact, shared geography, or even similar lives. It requires a shared past that was formative enough that
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I played Doom. Almost obsessively. For nearly two years (1995 to 1997), my colleagues and I would wrap up long days on a construction site in Connecticut and disappear into networked deathmatches for a couple of hours or
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There has been a lot of discussion about the Anthropic negotiations which ultimately fell apart when Anthropic was unwilling to accept certain requests by the Department of War. Negotiations had been ongoing for several
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This is the third and final installment in a series examining the cracks in the AI scaling narrative, from the technical limits, to the financial fragility, to who bears the cost when the correction comes. In the first p
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This is the second in a three-part series examining the cracks in the AI scaling narrative, from the technical limits, to the financial fragility, to who bears the cost when the correction comes. Michael Burry, the inves
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This is the first in a three-part series examining the cracks in the AI scaling narrative, from the technical limits, to the financial fragility, to who bears the cost when the correction comes. The dominant AI narrative
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Last week, I admitted I’m part of the problem. Despite advocating restraint, I’ve felt the pull to post more, feed the algorithm, and add to the noise. We’re all drowning in a flood we helped create. I ended with a quest
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I’ve just finished a three-part series arguing that wisdom, in our current moment, means constraint-awareness. One of the core practices I advocate is generative restraint: resisting the impulse to add to the noise, valu
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