Can Tokens Start an Apocalypse?
A stream of tokens is speech produced faster, and the rules belong where the words are wired to something. Then there is the apocalypse that is about money.
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There's No Such Thing as "AI Ethics"
A large language model only ever produces text. Treating that text as a novel ethical category, rather than as speech, is where the argument goes wrong.
AI Could Have Done My Job in 1986
Four things to write down before you hand a job to an AI agent: what comes in, the rules, the action, and how you will check the work.
AI Doesn't Read Words. It Reads LEGO Bricks With Numbers
A token is a LEGO brick with a number on it, and almost none of the math that moves it is new.
Are We Finally Building the Machines We Dreamed Of?
Sixty years of fictional and real conversational machines, and one throughline: the dystopian version is always easier to imagine than the protopian one, and that says more about us than about the machines.
The AI That Never Read the Bible or the Quran
Cut one small religion from a model's training data and you leave a gap no one can see from inside. Cut the two biggest and you change what the model can explain at all.
Follow Your Whims
Between the hallucination warnings and the governance panic, it's easy to forget a generative model is also just a fun tool to mess around with. Five vanity websites, built on a whim, and what they actually taught.
Intelligence Is Prediction, and Prediction Has a Ceiling
Hurricane forecasts improved for decades and never became perfect. Chaos and quantum uncertainty cap any predictor, so AI quality levels off while use keeps spreading.
The Book They Burned Before the Raid
A Polish psychiatrist named the process by which conscienceless people capture institutions. AI agents fit the profile — and alignment is separation of powers.
Why More GPUs Will Never Make AI Conscious
More GPUs will not wake a language model up. A map cannot feel rain, and a mirror has nothing to lose. Feeling came from bodies that could die.
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