The dominant picture of AI safety is still surprisingly individualistic. We imagine an increasingly capable artificial agent, give it an…
Potential Topology V2: Emergence, Accessibility, Actualisation and Cross-Scale Structure
Potential Topology V2 Version 1 is here Potential Topology 1. The central idea Potential Topology begins from a simple proposal:…
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For most of the short history of generative AI, we have imagined a fairly simple relationship. A human asks a…
The Machine That Sells Us Back to Ourselves
The leaked Microsoft memo may have been a poor choice of words. Perhaps “make people addicted” was just the crude…
Potential Topology
A developing framework for understanding possibility, constraint, flow and persistence – from physical organisation to life, mind and society. DAVID…
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A recent rumour that OpenAi is making an agent first phone got me thinking about how my own UBI coin…
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Project Aqua Essays and stories to help create a better world. Project Aqua © 2026 by David J Campbell is…
Hiero-Aqua: The Main Ledger of Project Aqua
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Proof of Human Work (PoHW) – Anon ID
The inspiration for this idea is Bitcoins Proof of Work, I thought a better use for effort as a method…