Archive - Axio

Inequality Is Not a Problem

A distribution cannot tell you what is wrong

21 hrs ago • David Mc

Affirmative Action Was Effective—and Unjust

What Sean Carroll Gets Wrong About Race-Conscious Admissions

Jul 14 • David Mc

The Lazy-Rendering Myth

Quantum mechanics gives us no reason to think the universe is a video game

Jul 11 • David Mc

The Probability Tribes

Bayesians, frequentists, critical rationalists, and the fight over rational belief

Jul 11 • David Mc

Fallibilist Bayesianism

Bayes within models, criticism between them

Jul 11 • David Mc

The Bayesian Trapdoor

How Real Anomalies Become Fake Certainties

Jul 9 • David Mc

AI Is Not an Animal

The Architecture of Artificial Agency

Jul 5 • David Mc

Sapient Agency Realism

Objective Morality Without Cosmic Commandments

Jul 5 • David Mc

The Collapse of Proof-of-Work Credentials

When production cost falls, institutions lose their favorite proxy for skill

Jul 5 • David Mc

Mars Needs Axiocracy

Value Discovery Under Existential Scarcity

Jul 4 • David Mc

Probability After Probabilism

The arithmetic begins after the world has been carved

Jul 3 • David Mc

June 2026

When Should AI Get Rights?

Rights Track Agency, Not Species

Jun 28 • David Mc

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