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Philosophy

Peace Plan

It is a strange and quietly dangerous habit of our age to treat peace, language, and meaning as though they arrive fully formed at the end of history, fixed as semiotic anchors to be engineered, stabilised, and installed, rather than as fragile continuities that persist only because the relations that give them form are never […]

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cybernetics

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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systems

Infallible Machines and Inflexible Organisations

If a non-trivially complex organisational system of any kind or scale is to be considered (even notionally) as complete or entirely self-consistent, it can not also be adaptive, flexible and resilient.