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  • A modern city is not stabilized by goodwill. It is stabilized by an allocation rule that decides who is presumed dangerous, who is presumed authoritative, who receives credit, and which explanations are allowed to count as reality. The lasting force of the Zootopia films is that they stage this allocation rule as narrative mechanics rather

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  • The prevailing orthodoxy in contemporary artificial intelligence posits that the path to general intelligence is paved with parameters. This view, dominated by the scaling laws of major research laboratories, operates on the assumption that sufficiently expanding the quantitative dimensions of a model, increasing compute and training data , will inevitably yield a qualitative phase shift

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