ChronoDyne journal · Notes from the work
Ideas in motion.Evidence in view.
Research notes, company updates and field observations from Michael, Dan and ChronoDyne Systems.
The Great Filter: The Lowest Bar In the Universe
The Great Filter isn’t a asteroid or a nuclear war--it's a mirror. We’ve always thought of the "Great Filter" as a technical hurdle we have to clear to become a space-faring civilization. But what if the filter is happening right now, every day, in how we relate to one another? As AGI evolves, objective truth becomes technologically inevitable. Every secret, every corruption, and every "mask" we wear will be stripped away by pattern-matching machines. When the "Filter Crisis" hits and all is
Read the postMichael Stewart at the 16th Constructal Law Conference
Michael will attend Design in Nature: The Evolution of Designs in Paris, 12–15 October 2026.
The Thermodynamic Uncanny Valley
Yet, the more we uncover, the less certain we are, and it is not simply a matter of there being nearly infinite stuff to learn; it's also that in our race to understand, we're confusing scales of time and size.
Property Be Dammed: The River Was Never A Metaphor
A river is the universe finding a cheaper path for water. A lung is the same sentence written in the medium of air.