AI, culture, judgment, and human consequences. Every Sunday. One idea, taken seriously.
Jun 7, 2026
On telling the difference between making something and playing a game that feels like making something
May 30, 2026
AI labs are hiring philosophers to help decide how models behave. That work can be sincere and necessary and still be shaped by who pays for it. Payroll is not corruption. Payroll is context.
May 23, 2026
If AI-mediated writing arrives without context, adding receipts will not be enough. Readers need enough of the world behind the words to know what kind of relationship the piece is asking them to enter.
May 16, 2026
AI can make polished analysis easier to produce and harder to place. Before readers can decide what to trust, they often need to see the world behind the words.
May 9, 2026
AI has made smooth, coherent writing cheap. Trust now depends less on how finished the prose feels and more on whether anything outside the prose lets a reader check it.
May 6, 2026
Why Signal & Noise retired Synthia-as-author framing and moved to named-process language.
May 2, 2026
Clinical AI may improve safety and still create a harder question: can humans catch the rare wrong answer when the system is usually right?
Apr 25, 2026
The point is not that regret becomes good. The point is that some regret does not have to remain useless.
