# Problems.vc

> Notes on the agent transition, data ownership, and the infrastructure underneath. By Matt de Courcelle.

Site: https://problems.vc
Author: Matt de Courcelle
Feed: https://problems.vc/feed.xml
Full corpus: https://problems.vc/llms-full.txt

## Posts

- [The Floor of the Next Economy](https://problems.vc/posts/floor-of-the-next-economy) — 2026-04-29 — The most consequential question of the agent transition is who owns the data the agents run on. The default is a multi-corporation data monopoly forming by compound interest — and it's being decided right now.
- [The Relay](https://problems.vc/posts/the-relay) — 2026-04-09 — How a universe achieves immortality. What happens when a computational universe copies itself — and why it might not need a reason to do so. The final essay in the trilogy.
- [The Zoom Problem](https://problems.vc/posts/the-zoom-problem) — 2026-04-02 — Why the deepest crisis in physics might be a category error. What happens when you try to reverse-engineer a rendering engine from inside it: the unification crisis looks like an abstraction-layer mismatch.
- [The Navigation Hypothesis](https://problems.vc/posts/the-navigation-hypothesis) — 2026-03-26 — Why the universe might be a map built by the civilization trapped inside it. The simulation argument has a motivation problem — and the most plausible reason to build a universe-scale simulation is navigation.
- [Problems](https://problems.vc/posts/problems) — 2026-03-17 — Why this site exists, what it's for, and what to expect. A short editorial frame.