Les Circuits Longs
Dissolution runs at computational speed. Construction runs at biological speed. Friction was the governor that kept them in sync. This series traces a single mechanism from several angles: what happens when optimization outpaces formation.
Episodes
Episode 1 – Notes on permanence, time, and ergodicity
A framework for building institutions that compound under pressure: treat time as information, preserve loop integrity, and focus on domains where repetition improves judgment.
Episode 2 – The Death of the Inner Self
Individuality is a coordination technology. It emerged under specific historical conditions, and those conditions are weakening as computation, capital, and automated feedback loops absorb the functions it once performed.
Episode 3 – Unprepared for What’s Coming
Humanity is completely unprepared for what’s coming. The pace of AI advancement might give people months to adapt, not decades.
Episode 4 – Friction as Luxury: What We Lose When AI Gives Us What We Want
The scarcity that matters most in a post AGI world won’t be compute or energy. It will be desire itself.
Episode 5 – Legibility Kills What It Measures
What happens when AI makes everything legible? The things that worked because they couldn’t be seen clearly may stop working once they can.
Episode 6 – Dissolution Without Construction
Every previous coordination technology that dissolved a form of selfhood also cultivated the next one. Current algorithmic systems only dissolve. The problem is the speed mismatch.
This series is in progress, stay tuned!