Mike
@misaligned.markets
Was Philosimplicity on the other site. Now blogging about political economy and the structure of capitalism at https://misaligned.markets/
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I'm Mike, been writing on the internet for 10+ years. Started a blog, in 2017, called Philosimplicity.
I've moved on to a new project, Misaligned Markets, to answer every question I've ever had about capitalism. Looking for researchers to interview as project grows misaligned.markets/start-here/
I've moved on to a new project, Misaligned Markets, to answer every question I've ever had about capitalism. Looking for researchers to interview as project grows misaligned.markets/start-here/
Cyberpunk as a genre feels like it’s about fear of a recurring past. Back to a world of Zaibatsus, Business Plots, and to the violence of
Blair Mountain. It’s a world where technological progress guarantees the alienation of working people as they are nothing more than pieces in a mechanistic game.
Blair Mountain. It’s a world where technological progress guarantees the alienation of working people as they are nothing more than pieces in a mechanistic game.
2/ Sound familiar? "Cyberpunk as a genre was never a celebration of technology...The end of the 70s was the birth of modern corporate power and modern perception of technological change..
Mega-corporations more powerful than any government, fascist police serving the status quo and the upper class"
Mega-corporations more powerful than any government, fascist police serving the status quo and the upper class"
December 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Cyberpunk as a genre feels like it’s about fear of a recurring past. Back to a world of Zaibatsus, Business Plots, and to the violence of
Blair Mountain. It’s a world where technological progress guarantees the alienation of working people as they are nothing more than pieces in a mechanistic game.
Blair Mountain. It’s a world where technological progress guarantees the alienation of working people as they are nothing more than pieces in a mechanistic game.
If you want to understand market #capitalism or #economics, information asymmetry is foundational. I argue controlling the flow of information by either discovering real (in)efficiencies or shaping consumer perceptions drives all profit-driven activity. misaligned.markets/corponomics-...
The lethal economics of corporate kung fu
Does competition in market capitalism incentivize increasingly cleverer ways of bypassing economic competition?
misaligned.markets
December 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
If you want to understand market #capitalism or #economics, information asymmetry is foundational. I argue controlling the flow of information by either discovering real (in)efficiencies or shaping consumer perceptions drives all profit-driven activity. misaligned.markets/corponomics-...
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#LLMs stand on our shoulders to become giants, using our data and an army of underpaid workers.
Then, at runtime entire subsystems must be maintained to ensure these things work. All of this is in service of the #darkpattern that models alone are intelligences.
misaligned.markets/llm-intellig...
Then, at runtime entire subsystems must be maintained to ensure these things work. All of this is in service of the #darkpattern that models alone are intelligences.
misaligned.markets/llm-intellig...
LLM “intelligence” is a dark pattern
LLMs leverage scaffolding and user psychology to appear as slabs of raw intelligence in service of a costly illusion.
misaligned.markets
December 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
#LLMs stand on our shoulders to become giants, using our data and an army of underpaid workers.
Then, at runtime entire subsystems must be maintained to ensure these things work. All of this is in service of the #darkpattern that models alone are intelligences.
misaligned.markets/llm-intellig...
Then, at runtime entire subsystems must be maintained to ensure these things work. All of this is in service of the #darkpattern that models alone are intelligences.
misaligned.markets/llm-intellig...
#LLMs stand on our shoulders to become giants, using our data and an army of underpaid workers.
Then, at runtime entire subsystems must be maintained to ensure these things work. All of this is in service of the #darkpattern that models alone are intelligences.
misaligned.markets/llm-intellig...
Then, at runtime entire subsystems must be maintained to ensure these things work. All of this is in service of the #darkpattern that models alone are intelligences.
misaligned.markets/llm-intellig...
LLM “intelligence” is a dark pattern
LLMs leverage scaffolding and user psychology to appear as slabs of raw intelligence in service of a costly illusion.
misaligned.markets
December 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
#LLMs stand on our shoulders to become giants, using our data and an army of underpaid workers.
Then, at runtime entire subsystems must be maintained to ensure these things work. All of this is in service of the #darkpattern that models alone are intelligences.
misaligned.markets/llm-intellig...
Then, at runtime entire subsystems must be maintained to ensure these things work. All of this is in service of the #darkpattern that models alone are intelligences.
misaligned.markets/llm-intellig...
I'm Mike, been writing on the internet for 10+ years. Started a blog, in 2017, called Philosimplicity.
I've moved on to a new project, Misaligned Markets, to answer every question I've ever had about capitalism. Looking for researchers to interview as project grows misaligned.markets/start-here/
I've moved on to a new project, Misaligned Markets, to answer every question I've ever had about capitalism. Looking for researchers to interview as project grows misaligned.markets/start-here/
Start Here
New to Misaligned Markets? Here's an overview of the ideas behind the project.
misaligned.markets
December 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I'm Mike, been writing on the internet for 10+ years. Started a blog, in 2017, called Philosimplicity.
I've moved on to a new project, Misaligned Markets, to answer every question I've ever had about capitalism. Looking for researchers to interview as project grows misaligned.markets/start-here/
I've moved on to a new project, Misaligned Markets, to answer every question I've ever had about capitalism. Looking for researchers to interview as project grows misaligned.markets/start-here/
Nostalgia for academic Twitter (circa 2018) brought me here. I used to write a blog called Philosimplicity and found engaging w/ #philosophers, #academics, and #humanities focused creators stimulating.
I know it's 2025 and a lot has changed online, but hoping to rekindle just a bit of the past.
I know it's 2025 and a lot has changed online, but hoping to rekindle just a bit of the past.
December 18, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Nostalgia for academic Twitter (circa 2018) brought me here. I used to write a blog called Philosimplicity and found engaging w/ #philosophers, #academics, and #humanities focused creators stimulating.
I know it's 2025 and a lot has changed online, but hoping to rekindle just a bit of the past.
I know it's 2025 and a lot has changed online, but hoping to rekindle just a bit of the past.