Descent into the Computational Sublime

What's good?

I want to start by talking about some things that seem like potential ways out of the dark forest tangle—even if they’re imperfect, which they all are.

Building in the dark forest

We write from our new home in the Dark Forest. This week we fully committed to our new universe: we abandoned Slack and moved all operations into DFOS, our new tool, available more widely in the coming weeks. It feels good in here. Calm. Cozy. Just enough activity for things

On Thickets, Enclosure, and Leaving

Every platform I left, I left for the same pattern: enclosure by othering — systems that define what is shameful, create targets, and point an aggressive majority at them. Substack's AI-detection turn is the latest, and it is Dark Forestry in action. The escape is spatial: go where the platforms ar…

Welcome to the Tidyverse

Wickham et al., (2019). Welcome to the Tidyverse. Journal of Open Source Software, 4(43), 1686, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01686

The Cognitive Dark Forest

The open web with AIs is turning into a dark forest.

Are "algorithms" making us boring?

Kyle Chayka's 'Filterworld'

David Aerne · Computational Designer

David Aerne works between code, art and design in Zürich, with a particular obsession for generating beautiful, useful color palettes with algorithms.

Computational category theory

Computational category theory by D. E. Rydeheard, 1988, Prentice Hall edition, in English

Chris Peikert on Twitter / X

WOW!! 🤯Among many jaw-dropping results, this proves NP-hardness of the Closest Vector and Nearest Codeword Problems for *polynomial* approximation factors, for the first time ever, and via a totally new approach (Reed-Solomon techniques). Amazing! https://t.co/3yh3scLX5R— Chris Peikert (@ChrisPeikert) August 1, 2026

Against the dark forest

The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.

Dark Forestry | Henry From Online

Seasons are changing for technologists, and the industry we work in isn't the same as it was a decade ago. We have new realities and new responsibilities to accept.

Dead Forest Theory

Internet darkness is turning into deadness and time is running out

Subset Park: Combinatory Programming

Combinatory Programming :

I Wanted to Create “The Most Human Gathering”—and Created a Monster

What my failed attempt at curation says about the next “intelligence explosion” “The word for world is forest“ – Ursula K. Le Guin With everyone now a coder, you’d think this would be a good time for curators like me.