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What survives when everything can be generated. Non-simulable provenance, the collapse of evidence, and what still counts as proof.
What these systems remember and what they let us forget, and who holds the power to decide. Training data, cultural memory, and concentration.
How institutions absorb contested technologies, and why adoption fails more in the organization than in the tool.
On what resists forgery when everything can be generated. AI dissolves the origin of what it makes. Governance has to decide what still counts as evidence. Proof of Work is ugly, slow, and expensive. That's the point. Bitcoin as non-simulable provenance in an age of synthetic media.
What a language model remembers, and what it statistically forgets. A cultural-memory reading of training data, and a case for humanities expertise in AI governance. How a new medium decides what a culture keeps: cultural-memory theory applied to large language models.
Why AI adoption fails inside institutions, as an investigation. An interactive thought-piece on governance, incentives, and organizational change. Four suspects, twelve exhibits, one verdict: yours. Why technology projects fail inside institutions.
An interactive thought-piece on machine consciousness and the limits of measurement: every test we apply to a mind is one we cannot ourselves pass cleanly.
You become the language model. An interactive thought-piece on how these systems actually produce language, one ranked token at a time.
On money, war, and fiscal anaesthesia: how invisible costs let institutions avoid the decisions they would otherwise have to debate. Money, war, and fiscal anaesthesia: what a society stops seeing once its costs are made invisible.
A book on culture as the protocol layer institutions run on, and what governance must do when a new technology rewrites it. A book re-reading the modern mind through Bitcoin.
How a monetary technology inherits a cultural and political lineage instead of arriving from nowhere. Bitcoin Magazine, Big Read. Decentralized money didn’t come from nowhere: the avant-garde prehistory of Bitcoin. Bitcoin Magazine, Big Read.
Turning a closed technical process into a public, exhibitable work: a case in making a technology legible to people. Concept, coordination, opening lecture. Art built on Bitcoin brought into a conservative public museum, shown alongside Klimt. My role: concept, coordination, opening lecture.
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