Axio

Axio

Home
Archive
About
Attention Is an Economy
How Salience Bids for the Mind
May 18 • David Mc
The Price of Breath
A story of markets, liability, and a civilization that makes power pay for its failures
May 14 • David Mc
Axiocracy: Governance by Value Discovery
The Deeper Case for Markets
May 14 • David Mc
The Grey Zone of Coercion
Why legitimate force depends on conditions, not slogans
May 11 • David Mc
Death Does Not Command Service
Mortality reveals scarcity, not moral duty.
May 11 • David Mc
Einstein Didn’t Say It, and It Isn’t True
The fake insanity quote confuses iteration with failed updating
May 9 • David Mc
Why Zombies Don’t Evolve
Consciousness, attention control, and the Modeler-schema
May 5 • David Mc
Against Envy
Why resentment is a corrupt foundation for politics
May 3 • David Mc

April 2026

Against Button Morality
Why the sane answer depends on the details
Apr 25 • David Mc
You’re Right to Push Back
How LLMs simulate accountability
Apr 25 • David Mc
Against Utilitarianism
Why agency-centered ethics rejects Singer’s moral arithmetic
Apr 21 • David Mc
When the Protector Becomes the Ruler
National defense, coercive coordination, and the structural drift from shield to sovereign
Apr 19 • David Mc
© 2026 David Mc · Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start your SubstackGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture