The Alignment Problem Is Older Than You Think
AI alignment isn't a new technical challenge. It's the oldest governance problem civilization has ever faced — now running at 100% sociopath base rate.
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We've Run This Experiment
We know what happens when sociopaths accumulate power. We've watched it happen on roughly an 80-year cycle. We're watching it again.
Every Robot Is a Sociopath
Sociopathy isn't villainy — it's a clinical absence of stakes and empathy. Every AI system meets the definition. Not by accident. By design.
CIqSi Signal & Noise
The Counterfeit Baseline: Why Disinformation Is Redundant
From Gutenberg’s Bible to AI-generated deepfakes, media has always manufactured consensus. The baseline was never truth.
You Have to Understand Before You Can Speak
Everyone asks when they'll be able to speak. It's the wrong question to start with — not because speaking isn't the goal, but because it puts the work in the wrong order.
The Counterfeit Baseline: Why Disinformation Is Redundant
From Gutenberg's Bible to AI-generated deepfakes, media has always manufactured consensus. The baseline was never truth.
The Third Time You See a Word, Your Brain Does Something Different
Brain scan research shows that seeing something three times triggers a different kind of memory storage — one that actually sticks. Here's what that means for language learners.
By Any Other Name
Sting, Voltaire, Einstein, and Geordi La Forge — a small taxonomy of the monomym, plus the graph theory hiding inside genealogy, gut bacteria, Star Trek interfaces, moral foundations, language models, and evolutionary psychology. The name is the node. The projects are the edges.
The 1500-Hour Map: What Language Learning Actually Looks Like
Nobody tells you what the journey really looks like — the long stretches of fog, the sudden breakthroughs, the point where the language stops being foreign. Here's an honest map.
CIqSi Human-Machine
Let's Do Something, Even If It's Wrong
A friend I lost in 1986 had a saying that keeps fitting new situations. The AI automation question is the latest one it answers perfectly.