Carlos E. Perez (IntuitMachine)

I will be in Paris next week, DM me if you want to meet up.

OpenAI's new internal directive (their operational playbook)! YouTube video by Intuition Machine - AGI is the Medium

OpenAI's new "native-AI" organizational playbook
youtu.be/yfIwXbBu9-k

How Social Media is Rewiring Human Thought YouTube video by Intuition Machine - AGI is the Medium

How social media is fragmenting your consciousness
youtu.be/AxC1jgIjNX8

The Manipulators' Playbook YouTube video by Intuition Machine - AGI is the Medium

How to spot Propaganda and Social Engineering

youtu.be/suodg8H4MUA

The Manipulators' Playbook YouTube video by Intuition Machine - AGI is the Medium

Social Engineering and Propaganda. What you need to know to avoid becoming a victim.

youtube.com/watch?v=suodg8H4MUA&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY

Simply mind-blowing 🤯 that Claude Opus 4.5 can conjure up this derivation. Truly stretching our expectations of what these AIs can accomplish.

A new grammar for expressing intelligence.

Playbook for Surviving the AI Singularity

21 Obsolete Habits in the Age of AI

Every abundance creates a new scarcity. What are the new scarcity that arises when generation costs trend toward zero? Are you aware of these bottlenecks?

Moloch Trap Design

Why Complex Systems (like Organizations) are Broken

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Moloch is not inevitable.

He's just patient.

And he's betting we've forgotten how to fight.

Let's prove him wrong.

/end

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The question isn't whether Moloch can be beaten.
History already answered that.
The question is whether we'll build the next generation of traps before the current ones finish eroding.

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I used to read "Meditations on Moloch" and feel despair.
Now I read it as a diagnostic manual.

Moloch isn't a god.

He's a bug.

A well-understood bug with known patches.

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This won't happen automatically.

Moloch is the default.

Escape requires deliberate construction.

But "requires effort" ≠ "impossible."

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But the method still works:

Identify where individual rationality → collective harm
Find ways to make defection visible
Build mechanisms that make defection costly
Design structures where cooperation pays

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New Moloch-traps are needed now.

For AI development. For social media dynamics. For climate coordination. For attention economics.

The old traps don't fit the new games.

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The generation that built rule of law, property rights, democratic norms—they did impossible things.

Not because they were smarter.

Because they understood something we've forgotten:
Coordination problems are solvable.

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Here's the brutal truth:

Alignment isn't a state. It's a process.

Every Moloch-trap requires active maintenance.

Stop maintaining, and Moloch seeps back in.

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This is actually good news.

It means the question isn't "Can we escape Moloch?"

It's "Are we willing to maintain our escapes?"

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"But wait," you say. "These systems are failing. Moloch is winning."

Fair.

Let me reframe:

These systems are eroding.

Moloch doesn't conquer—he corrodes.

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This is the secret hidden in plain sight:

Every institution that works is a Moloch-trap.

Markets. Courts. Democracies. Professional norms. Reputation systems.

All are mechanisms that convert individual selfishness into collective benefit.

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This is engineering, not prayer.

You don't beat Moloch by being virtuous.

You beat him by changing the game so that selfish actors accidentally cooperate.

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So what's the actual formula?

Invert Moloch's four requirements:

✓ Build coordination infrastructure (communication + trust)
✓ Make defection visible (transparency architecture)
✓ Make defection costly (credible commitment mechanisms)
✓ Make cooperation pay (positive-sum structure)

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I'm not saying these systems are perfect.

I'm saying they exist.

They prove that coordination failures can be engineered away.

Moloch-escape isn't a fantasy. It's been done.

Repeatedly.

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Then humans invented something weird:

Elections.
Peaceful power transfer. Losers accept results. Winners don't execute opponents.

Sounds impossible. Yet here we are.

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Existence Proof #3: Democratic Succession

For most of history, power transferred through violence.

King dies → succession war → thousands dead → winner takes throne → repeat.

Pure Moloch.

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Except... it's not.

When communities developed property norms—whether private ownership or collective management with rules—the dynamic shifted.

Defection became visible. Consequences became real. Stewardship became rational.

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Existence Proof #2: Property Rights

The tragedy of the commons is Moloch's favorite game.

Everyone overgrazes. The commons dies. Everyone loses.

"Inevitable," we're told.

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The result?
Violence dropped. Trade increased. Investment became possible.
Not utopia. But measurably, dramatically better.

Moloch didn't disappear.
He was pushed back.