Passive dynamic walkers are robots that can walk without anything analogous to a brain. Are there passive dynamic perceivers—viewers, hearers, smellers, etc? If not, does anyone know why that's hard to do?

Agents fuse with each other to form collective intelligences. In economics, we have a clear picture of the final state of fusion: the law of one price. interestingessays.substack.com/p/the-law-of-o…

Perceptions seem to be about external referents, but the example of prices as perceptions show that external referents are more abstract and weird than usually imagined: interestingessays.substack.com/p/external-ref…

An argument that goals and value judgments exist at the level of math because mathematical objects can be arranged into preference orders by how well they solve a problem: interestingessays.substack.com/p/normativity-…

An argument that the economy never dies because it never grows up. Getting organisms to be like economies in this regard may be the key to longevity: interestingessays.substack.com/p/an-economic-…

Do organisms age because they're full of price controls? I don't know but maybe: interestingessays.substack.com/p/is-aging-cau…

Speculation that the economy is immortal because it has no concrete attachments, nothing that gets in the way of the abstract goal of being an accurate and rational model of the world: interestingessays.substack.com/p/immortality-…

We can use markets to ask questions to the economy and reliably get accurate answers. Maybe we can also use markets to ask questions to cells and other non-human collective intelligences and reliably get accurate answers as well: interestingessays.substack.com/p/markets-for-…

New piece! 👽 Diffused AGI "advocate agents" could allow us to solve intractable social and political coordination problems. This same technology offers a foundation for better governance, allowing us to rebuild decaying institutions from the ground up. Link below!

Abolish the value function! youtube.com/watch?v=E0A0v5…

An argument that the interoception-and-allostasis ideas of Lisa Feldman Barrett and the collective intelligence ideas of Michael Levin require each other. This is just economics! interestingessays.substack.com/p/allostasis-a…

Online now: It’s not the thought that counts: Allostasis at the core of brain function dlvr.it/TNgc2v

Yes, that’s how the law is often (not always!) understood. But when what sellers demand is more money balances—when they hoard their sales proceeds—supply of goods doesn’t create a like demand _for goods_. Then, unless the money stock also expands, unemployment can result.*

After reading the excellent "Beyond Preferences in AI Alignment", I was inspired to write up some thoughts about what choice, preferences, and rationality look like from an economics-of-collective-intelligence perspective: interestingessays.substack.com/p/beyond-prefe…

Stop treating neurons as passive processors... They are active controllers! 🧠🎛️ In our latest Journal Club session, Thelonious Cooper presented "The neuron as a direct data-driven controller" by Moore et al., with special commentary from Dmitri "Mitya" (the paper's senior author).

Examples of perceptual control in economics, Eli Sennesh thoughts? interestingessays.substack.com/p/perceptual-c…

Literature recommendations for a paper on AI alignment and morality, particularly stuff that might be easy to miss or overlook?

New paper: we argue AGI may first emerge as collective intelligence across agent networks, not a single system. This reframes the challenge from aligning one mind to governing emergent dynamics: more institutional design than single-agent alignment. arxiv.org/abs/2512.16856