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Read “Garbage Collection” in Nature Futures? Follow Entropy Debt Week: time travel, rollback, erased futures, and the essays behind the story. Start Entropy Debt Week. Reading guide → Debt 00
Aidan Lawson

Aidan Lawson

Jacques Derrida and the Upended Source

Jacques Derrida and the Upended Source

(Your Luster. My Glaive.)
Aidan Lawson 13 Oct 2026
Applied Case: The Streets Have Standing

Applied Case: The Streets Have Standing

India, France, Spain, Serbia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are confronting different failures and disputes in public authority. The question connecting them is what an answer from the public can still make an institution do.
Aidan Lawson 12 Oct 2026
MODAL KOMBAT: Nancy Cartwright and the Elemental Planes

MODAL KOMBAT: Nancy Cartwright and the Elemental Planes

The Amulet travels. The conditions do not.
Aidan Lawson 12 Oct 2026
Applied Case: Claude Saw Someone Matching the Description

Applied Case: Claude Saw Someone Matching the Description

Anthropic has produced an eyewitness to an unsolved murder in Philadelphia. Unfortunately, the eyewitness is Claude.
Aidan Lawson 11 Oct 2026
MODAL KOMBAT: David Lewis and the Outer Extance

MODAL KOMBAT: David Lewis and the Outer Extance

Something has been standing outside this framework since the beginning.
Aidan Lawson 11 Oct 2026
The Author Was Never Alone

The Author Was Never Alone

AI disclosure, provenance, and the impossible pure sentence
Aidan Lawson 10 Oct 2026
Multiplayer: JUNKER

Multiplayer: JUNKER

Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares, and the constitution of stopping artificial intelligence.
Aidan Lawson 10 Oct 2026
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