We remain perfectly capable of making catastrophically short-sighted decisions all by ourselves. The technology simply amplifies the incentives we have already normalised.
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knot clever: machine learning
The road to hell is paved with greedy algorithms.
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indefatigably yours
Still here. Still thinking. Still refusing to disappear.
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Ethical Selves
What is missing precedes the language with which we attempt to describe its consequences.
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Vocabulary: How not What
I found myself in conversation with another commuter on public transport today. They mentioned not completing high school in regards to their education, and the conversation drifted toward my interest in language and communication. I explained that vocabulary is never a reliable proxy for intelligence. A small vocabulary used precisely often reveals more intellect than […]
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Truth in Language
What is truth. The moment we ask the question, we are already inside language, and everything that follows unfolds from that fact. Truth is not something we approach from outside, as a detached observer might inspect an object. It arises within sequences of tokens, within the games we play with them, within the structures we […]
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Maintenance Mode
Modern systems do not fail for lack of intelligence; they fail because intelligence cannot be sustained inside them. What disrupts institutional self-reproduction is neutralised, not because it is wrong, but because it shortens the cycle. That is the sustainability problem. A civilisation that cannot maintain its own capacity for understanding cannot respond coherently to anything […]
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The Sociocognitive Dangers of AI
We are building machines that can talk, draft, diagnose, summarise, and imitate. Each month the interface becomes smoother; each week the latency shrinks. The friction that once shaped our thinking — the tiny deferrals through which thought organises itself — is being polished away. It feels like progress because the response arrives quickly and looks […]
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Limited Language Models
In recent years, large language models have moved along a gradient from research artefacts into everyday infrastructure—search, email, design tools, call centres, legal drafting, medical triage. They operate by predicting the next token in a sequence, trained on vast corpora of text and code. Their fluency comes from compression, not comprehension. They do not possess […]
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Writing Without AI
It is a dying practise. Even as automation bludgeons narrative salience and nuance into the cognitively and culturally low-functioning relational slurry that it has now become, our thought patterns and socioeconomic reflexes adapt and align along with it. Try writing without AI. Feel the difference. That is natural intelligence. That is life.
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General Intelligence
Imagine F and G as two interdependent operations—each defining the other through difference. F acts as a generator: it constructs hypotheses, projections, or internal states. G acts as a comparator: it evaluates, reflects, and reintroduces the outcomes of F back into the system. The diagram’s symmetry, where F = − G, indicates an inversion rather […]
Biological evolution can be read not as a ladder of material refinement but as a synchronisation phenomenon—a system exhibiting Kuramoto-like synchronisation (1984), a mathematical model of how independent oscillators—like fireflies or human hearts—fall into rhythm. Each organism, gene, or mind acts as an oscillator, sustaining an internal rhythm through cycles of metabolism, reproduction, or thought. […]
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