Jessica’s Reviews > Agency > Status Update

Replaced instead by another feeling, deeply unfamiliar. Another in-betweeness, but between what and what, she'd no idea.

Laterally encourage an autonomous, self-learning agent. Then nudge it toward greater agency. It helps that they're mad for AI there, though they've scarcely anything we'd consider that. By tracing historical fault lines around AI research here, we found what we needed there. Fault lines between the most reckless entrepreneurialism and certain worst-case examples of defense contracting.

Authoritarian societies are inherently corrupt, and corrupt societies are inherently unstable. Rule of thieves brings collapse, eventually, because they can’t stop stealing.

"destabilization has tipped over into dysfunction.”