All Essays

Essays, short stories, and commentary from the Better Argument community.

Technology

Technological Niche Construction

We must cobble together some sort of picture of what technology is and what it is doing, how it relates to us and us to it; and we all know by now that it will not slow down to help us out.

Benjamin ScottApril 1, 202613 min read

Technology

The Demigod Gap: Coexisting with Post-Humans

“Esteemed guests, welcome! We will shortly begin our ascent. Please sit comfortably and enjoy this once-in-a-timeline opportunity to bear witness to Earth’s largest mountain.”

Elliot B. GaramondMarch 29, 20265 min read

The Demigod Gap: Coexisting with Post-Humans

Technology

Who the Machine Says You Are

On how AI inherited rhetoric’s most dangerous art, and what it means for all of us.

Dr. Kem-Laurin LubinMarch 28, 20269 min read

Culture

I Met A Genie

The genie was so very tempting. I was so fatigued by going through the motions of work. Especially writing—writing emails, connecting with people and understanding what they need.

Elliot B. GaramondMarch 23, 20267 min read

Culture

Maybe I’ll Read That: Art in the Time of Ignorance

Being a review of “Art in the Time of Fascism” by Alex Preston, being itself a review of “Watching Over Her” by Jean Baptiste Andrea.

Selective ReaderMarch 23, 20264 min read

Maybe I’ll Read That: Art in the Time of Ignorance

Politics

The Privatization of the U.S. Government

The interface between citizen and government is changing. It is going high gloss, well engineered, aesthetic — the government is getting a private sector skin.

James HartreeMarch 23, 202611 min read

The Privatization of the U.S. Government