Double Edge
Why transformative technologies get weaponized first, why broad access restores the balance, and why the West is approaching AI all wrong
Joseph Watters
Essays on AI, power, markets, and the information age.
Latest Articles
The Final Lever
Why information, not capital, is becoming the decisive instrument of power
The Sovereignty Signal
What 103,000 GitHub stars in six days reveal about the coming bifurcation of human-AI integration
Markets as Social Infrastructure
How the attention economy dissolved the regulatory framework that made markets safe for human connection
Celebration of Life
Eulogy for Dr. David Benaron
The Falsifiable AI Agenda
The state of LLMs in 2025 is mode-switching cloud inference models that adopt specialized behaviors on demand. On some IQ-style benchmarks, they perfo...
The Simulation Trap
I keep coming back to a question that won't sit still: what does it mean to live inside a description of the world rather than the world itself?...
The New Interface
Civilizations rarely notice the moment when everything starts to change. The ships are already on the horizon by the time anyone thinks to look up fro...