The Ethical Skeptic

Goodhart's Law and the Death of Honest Inquiry — One of the most expensive lies I have ever had to endure.

The Age of Artificial Intelligence compels a redefinition of agency from the traditional notion of capacity for independent action to the modern reality of participation within reflexive intelligence networks. Agency is no longer simply what an individual can accomplish alone. The individual is compensated with agency through network participation, while the network amplifies th...

Several readers have asked that I publish my complete rendition of The Hypostasis of The Archons, having been intrigued by excerpts from that work which I have cited in various articles at The Ethical Skeptic. Accordingly, that material is provided in this article.

Since the release of the first ECDO Hypothesis on 16 February 2020, a number of modelers have stepped forward to offer their own perspectives on how Earth's geomechanics might fit into an ECDO framework. To date, six individuals or groups have undertaken the task of developing simulations of varying complexity to test the fit between Earth's geophysical and geohistorical record ...