automation

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automation

Automation as an operating choice rather than a magic trick: what to delegate, what to preserve, and where control should remain visible.

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Latest: August 5, 2026
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Dispatches from the Argument Factory

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Dispatches from the Argument Factory

This project began as a joke about making Sam Altman and Dario Amodei fight as badly coordinated robot boxers, but it quickly turned into something much more serious: an experiment in open models, local AI, comparative retrieval, and evidence-grounded argumentation. Frustration with expensive, opaque cloud tools pushed the work back toward inspectable local systems, while the original boxing gag evolved into a platform that can build curated intellectual corpora, uncover hidden disagreements inside a user’s question, and measure how much the written record actually supports the fight. The project was built across several AI collaborators, each seeing a different part of the work, so the article ends by letting those models tell the story from their own corners.

Expertise Without Permission

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Expertise Without Permission

A working-class reflection on AI, expertise, and gatekeeping. The piece argues that expertise is real, but access to it has always been shaped by class, credentials, and permission. AI disrupts that arrangement by letting more people turn ideas into practice before institutions decide they are “qualified.” That democratizing potential is real, but complicated: the same tools that weaken old gates are mostly owned by corporations, turning liberation into subscription-based dependency. The essay defends craft while rejecting the fantasy that craft alone protects workers.