Tyler Maddox
Founder of the Recursive Institute. I write about what AI does to work, wages and power, and I build the things I need to study it.
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This site, rebuilt from WordPress as a fast, static, pure-Rust site.
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An independent research institute on how AI restructures labor, capital and institutional power.
Latest writing
- Essay Domain-Specific Task Compression
- Essay The Enshittification Engine
- Essay The Geopolitical Phase Diagram
- Essay The Psychology of Structural Irrelevance
- Essay The Sequencing Problem
- Essay The Dissipation Veil
- Essay The Wage Signal Collapse: How AI Skill Compression Destroys the Incentive to Become an Expert
- Essay The Adversarial Equilibrium Trap: Why AI Won’t Make Legal Services Cheaper
Essay archive
44 essays from before the rebuild, kept online as a legacy archive. This site predates recursive.institute, where the current theory is developed.