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Philosophy

Dangerous Intelligence

Intelligence is becoming a liability. Not socially ornamental intelligence, not credentialed cleverness, but actual understanding. The kind that sees structure, delay, recursion, consequence. The kind that notices when a system is lying to itself. That form of intelligence generates friction. It interrupts performance. It destabilises belonging. It exposes the hidden costs that simple stories are […]

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cybernetics

Palantir: who sees, is seen

Palantir begins as a word before it becomes a company: Tolkien’s seeing-stones, artefacts of vision and distance, instruments of remote awareness that promise clarity while quietly warping intention. They collapse space, compress time, and tempt their users into mistaking access for understanding. In Middle-earth, the danger is not simply that the stones reveal too much, […]