Essays and articles
Is Teleportation Real? What Travels and What Grows: Succession of a Subject at a Distance
Science-fiction teleportation assumes the very same person arrives at the other end, and that is what makes it a utopia. The theory of Causa Sui separates what in a subject can be transmitted (its content: knowledge, memory, skills) from what can only be grown (the living structure that binds it together). Hence a more honest teleportation: a carrier is grown on the spot from a transmitted program, the content follows as a signal, and what arrives is a successor whose difference from the original can be estimated and measured.
Pacing the Frontier: Genuine Concern or Cartel Deal?
Three AI labs suddenly agree to slow down — right as all three eye IPOs. The public story is rogue agent swarms; the quieter one is that AI-generated content is polluting the internet AI itself learns from. That's the real reason to pace the frontier