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Everyone knows the first half of the aphorism. The second half is where the actual thinking happens, and I think the reflex to stop at the first half is doing something worse than being lazy.
Running a chat model is not AI. The training process is. Everything else follows from that distinction, including where the human niche survives.
The bit did not fall from the sky in 1948. It is the last step in a chain that starts with a Greek philosopher arguing about sea battles and ends with Claude Shannon measuring surprise.
From polytheism as a map of the inner life, through the slow emergence of the individual voice, to the moment one god is raised above the rest, and what that means for how I actually live.
Cunningham's Law says the fastest way to get the right answer online is to post the wrong one. I've been doing this accidentally for years, and I think there's something serious underneath the joke.
My high school teacher told me physics explains the world. Years later I think that's completely wrong, and understanding why changes everything about how you approach the subject.
Kant draws a sharp line between acting from your own reason and acting from external pressure. But where does your reason actually come from? An exploration of autonomy, heteronomy, archetypes, and the slow work of building a self you can stand behind.
What does consciousness mean — and where on that spectrum do beetles, dogs, humans, and language models sit? No final answers, but an honest attempt to think the question through.
A colleague called it 'useless math but super fun.' I objected. Conway's Game of Life connects self-replicating machines, Wolfram's computational irreducibility, and the unsettling possibility that entropy is not just disorder — it is the universe refusing to be calculated.
Why we build monitoring systems — the case for industrial automation as human liberation, retrofit over greenfield, and why the sensor is the critical missing link between AI and the physical world.
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