INSIGHT
Without the fog and without the pretense: that everything is a revelation.
Here are the bits that usually come into being before anything else comes into being: theses, models, reasoning from first principles, consistency tests, sometimes second-order conclusions (i.e., those that spoil the fun because they are true). If something sounds obvious, it’s often because someone else has already discovered it. That’s where I come in: I rediscover it, and then I find an identical version in implementations. Met simplicity nor difficulty unreserved who. Entreaties mr conviction dissimilar me astonished.
Internet Deal Fraud Patterns: Top 12 Most Common Scams
Twelve of the most common fraud mechanisms, broken down into 3 documents about online goods exchange, with a description of how they work.
Why Most Internet Deals Fail: Battlefield Report
Analysis of the real causes of transaction failures in the commodity brokerage and facilitation industries.
African Reform Masterplan (Cameroon/RSA variant)
A broad plan of social and institutional reforms + the “Food for the Young” component (student nutrition, packages for families, financing).
SOMA: State Language for Human-AI Communication
A language for describing states (cognitive/procedural/emotional) consistent with human intuition.
Post-Labour Social Contract (Society after AI)
Sketching the social contract after work: human-in-the-loop, mechanisms of control and legitimization of decisions.