Pope Leo and the Optimizable Human
Magnifica Humanitas warns that artificial intelligence may teach people to treat themselves as optimization projects. The project shipped years ago.
Instrument Jurisdiction
Fictional Earth: Reddit and the Local World Machine
Every subreddit gets a constitution. [L]
Applied Case: The Immortal Corpus
The priests kept every philosopher alive and let philosophy die. [L]
Tales of Distortion: The Climbing Target
The machine saw the climb. The threat field saw the attack. Only one existed. Flight 655. Flight 752.
Tales of Distortion: Course 095
The ships did not all make the same mistake at Honda Point. They obeyed the first mistake.
Field Instruments: Martyrdom
The dead may obligate memory. They may not own future agency.
Failed Field Analysts: Robert McNamara and the Body Count Machine
The body count taught the war how to report itself, not how to measure.