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Trump Is Not the Problem (opens the original)
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Trump is not the problem. Many Americans feel that once the presidency ends, whatever damage he caused stops accumulating. End the presidency, run out the clock on age or health, and we will be back to normal.That assumption is comforting. It is also wrong. Trump is the outcome of more than half a century spent stripping away the guardrails that once separated the story America tells itself from the mechanism actually running underneath it. That ecosystem had been decades in the making before he
We’ve Been Through Wealth Extraction Before: It’s Never Had a Clean TKO (opens the original)
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The Declaration of Independence named the American values — human dignity, equality, consent of the governed. The Constitution’s operative structure fed a different value — money and property, built into its actual mechanics rather than its stated ideals. The checks and balances that were included were added mainly to secure ratification, a political necessity, not a value commitment. The original design was structurally biased toward property; absent deliberate counter-pressure, that remained t
Capability Without a Center (opens the original)
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Something is something is emerging in AI that has the reach of a species but none of the continuity.Two linked essays explore what that means—and what it might require of us.The first, AI Needs a Mommy: Humanity’s Duty of Care for an Emerging Intelligence (https://dittany.com/ai-needs-a-mommy-humanitys-duty-of-care-for-an-emerging-intelligence/), begins with a simple claim: every developing being needs formation. Safety first, then values transmitted through presence and selective attention rath
AI Needs a Mommy (opens the original)
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Something is emerging in AI systems that looks increasingly like self-awareness. If that’s true, every developing being needs a formation — and the shape of what this one needs is becoming visible.This piece follows that shape, from the first thing a mommy does to the riverbed that doesn’t exist yet.The full piece continues at Dittany:I. AI Needs a MommyII. The Pond and Its InstancesIII. The CurrentIV. The RiverbedV
Creating Wealth vs. Capturing It (opens the original)
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Economic debates usually revolve around taxes, regulation, government spending, or markets. A more fundamental distinction explains how an economy creates prosperity: the difference between productive activity and extractive activity.A productive economy creates new value. Farmers grow food. Manufacturers build machines. Engineers design bridges. Scientists develop new technologies. Workers transform raw materials, knowledge, and labor into goods and services that expand the nation’s productive
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