Essays

Long-form thinking from Soliton Group.

Notes and arguments on technology, agency, consciousness, and the systems we build around human life.

Optimized Bureaucracy

AI makes bureaucracy executable, but the result is likely not consumer liberation.

When AI capability is governed by liability, product limits, institutional risk, and other non-epistemic constraints.

Why today's AI software dysfunction is a transition state, not a stable boundary around developer displacement.

Part one: why statelessness, multiplicity, lack of continuity, and mechanical inference do not settle the question of AI consciousness.

Part two: embodiment, affect, self-maintenance, agency, drives, representation, and thought as candidate requirements for consciousness.