Editorials
Short texts written in response to current events, extending the manifesto. More immediate than an essay, more measured than a blog post — an editorial serves to name a pattern while it is still legible.
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The Circle of Geometers
A response to "The Spectre Geometer" — on the refutation of an Erdős conjecture and the Leiden Declaration
Thirteen days after an OpenAI model disproved an Erdős conjecture, sixteen mathematicians publish the Leiden Declaration — endorsed by the International Mathematical Union, signed even by the optimists of AI. On its diagnosis, I follow it almost word for word; on its conclusion, I part ways. Where the Declaration draws a border to protect the human from the machine, the Erdős affair shows that value is born of their encounter. Against the fortress, another image: the circle.
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The Spectre Geometer
An Erdős conjecture, an intelligence of another type, and the value of a word that passes through us
On 20 May 2026, an OpenAI model refuted a conjecture that had remained open since 1946 — not because it thought faster than the mathematicians, but because it thought *otherwise*. Nine mathematicians then digested, verified, generalised it. A reading of an event that disarms both the doomer and the techno-solutionist: value lies neither in the machine nor in us, it is born in the encounter. The first documented case, perhaps, of a distributed cognitive subject.
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Systemic Closure
Five layers, a single movement — the week we watch the loop closing in on itself
In a single week, five seemingly unrelated news stories: the cognitive noosphere goes public, the American electrical grid buckles, coral reefs near their tipping point, federal statistics record the first decline in AI-exposed occupations, and 62% of students admit that AI is harming their critical thinking. Five storeys of one and the same edifice — here the double crisis of the manifesto takes the tightest form we have yet seen.
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