Trusted Sources
On the faint hope that networks of trust might emerge from the noise and restore some sense of orientation
Latest version 1 published on March 30th, 2026
Originally published on eighttrigrams.substack.com on February 18th, 2026
Argues that recommender systems are vile and that we are drowning in slop, and that the latter is almost good thing, as we are forced to draw a line. The proposed remedy is to consume only content from creators we have direct relationships with, valuing who made it and how.
The Spark of Truth
On connoisseurship and provenance in the age of AI
Latest version 1 published on March 30th, 2026
Originally published on eighttrigrams.substack.com on January 12th, 2026
Mindless Drones
AI and the future of work
Latest version 1 published on March 30th, 2026
Originally published on eighttrigrams.substack.com on December 18th, 2025
Hallucination & Facticity
Do AIs Dream Up Sheep?
Latest version 1 published on March 30th, 2026
Originally published on eighttrigrams.substack.com on November 26th, 2025
From Scientific Method To Consensus
Discussion of Paul Feyerabend‘s Against Method and its ultimate ineffectiveness to weaken Science‘s hegemony
Latest version 1 published on March 30th, 2026
Originally published on eighttrigrams.substack.com on June 28th, 2025
Best Way to Live
Local knowledge in Daniel Everett‘s “Don‘t Sleep, There are Snakes - Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle”
Latest version 1 published on March 30th, 2026
Originally published on eighttrigrams.substack.com on May 25th, 2025
Schisms, schisms, and more schisms
On the phenomenon of polarisation, seen through an epistemological lense
Latest version 1 published on March 30th, 2026
Originally published on eighttrigrams.substack.com on July 19th, 2023
Categories and Conflict
How persons and groups possess different hierarchies of categories and how that either connects or separates them
Latest version 1 published on March 30th, 2026
Originally published on eighttrigrams.substack.com on July 15th, 2023
Can We Grasp Truth As A Whole
Latest version 1 published on March 30th, 2026
Originally published on eighttrigrams.substack.com on June 11th, 2023