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Essays on philosophy, artificial intelligence and the future of work, from a philosopher who builds with AI every day. In English, Spanish or French.

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Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I: a winged figure sits among tools of geometry and carpentry, head in hand, a compass in her lap.

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Gustave Doré’s Don Quixote in his library: the old man sits reading with a sword raised while knights, dragons, damsels and giants spill out of his books and crowd around him.

Moral Panic: A 2,400‑Year‑Old Script

Writing was going to cost us our memory. Novels, our judgment. The telegraph, our nerves. Is artificial intelligence another moral panic, or the first time the fear arrives in time?

Machines5 October 202625 min read

The Flammarion engraving: a traveller kneels at the edge of the world and pushes his head through the dome of the sky to see the machinery beyond.

The Structure of Artificial Revolutions

Kuhn showed that science changes by revolutions, not by accumulation. AI has just made the first draft of knowledge free. What counts as a contribution now?

Revolutions28 September 20262 min readSample text

A plate from Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie showing a pin workshop: workers turn great wheels to draw wire, and the tools of each step are laid out below.

The Machine That Builds the Machine

Musk’s companies treat the factory as the real product. The idea is older than Tesla: it was already in the pin workshop of the Encyclopédie.

Craft31 August 20261 min readSample text

The first draft of everything is now free. What we do with the rest is the question these essays try to answer.

Hey, I’m Nico.

I’m a philosopher who builds companies. I’ve founded several, helped scale another into a multimillion-dollar business, and today I build software and artificial intelligence for companies in Europe and Latin America.

I write to make sense of what this technology is doing to the way we think, work and live.

I take on a few projects each year. If yours is interesting, write to me.

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