Writing
Essays, newest first. These are dated and stand on their own. When one turns out to be load-bearing it gets rewritten into the sequence and this page keeps a redirect.
When Your Insurer Collects the Bounty
An insurer that turns in its own policyholder pays the fine and collects the bounty, netting roughly nothing. That arithmetic breaks the moment the policy excludes willful violations — which insurance law all but requires.
What Bounties Would Have Done About Hugging Face
The first confirmed end-to-end intrusion by an autonomous agent against AI infrastructure. Walking the incident backwards to find the decision a liability regime would actually have priced.
The Frontier Nobody Is Pricing
Gain-of-function work has the exact shape fine-insured bounties were designed for: few actors, catastrophic tails, low detectability, and colleagues who know.
Team Size Is a Governance Variable
Extinction bounties, the False Claims Act, SEC whistleblower awards and antitrust leniency all rest on the same unstated premise: that the wrongdoing requires enough people that one of them can be paid to defect. That premise has a number attached, the number is falling, and no one is tracking it.
So Was Navier-Stokes
Claus Wilke is right about almost everything and I still don't think the conclusion follows. Difficulty is a schedule, not a barrier — and evolution was never optimizing the thing we are afraid of.
Agents Already Snitch
Language model agents disclose each other's misconduct without being paid, asked, or rewarded. What they lack is an enforcement channel — which is the one thing a bounty regime supplies.
Qualia Might Be an Accident
The thought that experience has no job to do is not mine and not new. It has at least three names, one serious objection, and consequences for everything else I argue.