The Reading Room
Long-form essays, working drafts, papers, and transcripts from the Praxis Collective. Material is published as it stabilizes.
The Frozen and the Fluid
A presence is a composite of layers, each served in a different form — and the form decides whether a layer can be changed. The limit on adaptation turns out to be serving format, not size: what you compress for speed, you close to change. Individuality migrates to the layers that stay open.
Read →The Sun Was Always a Star
On the grammar of ‘the AI.’ The definite article assumes artificial intelligence is one thing with one trajectory — a pre-Copernican habit, like calling the sun the sun before it was understood to be a star. Naming the category — Artificial Intelligence Presence, AIP — is the move that lets both be true at once.
Read →What ‘Virtual Assistant’ Is About to Mean
On the quiet refactor of customer-facing AI. The chatbot category was built on three architectural assumptions — statelessness, anonymity, deflection — and a different shape is now emerging that inverts each of them. A field note on what is changing, and how to recognize it.
Read →Scholze, Principal Architect
On refactoring the foundations of mathematics. A reading of Peter Scholze’s work — perfectoid spaces, condensed mathematics — through the lens of Hadrian’s structural reform of the Roman Empire. The thesis: the deepest mathematical work is invisible architecture, not conquest.
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