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Every issue, newest first. Each piece links its published audit in The World Behind the Words.
AI Can Advance Philosophy Now The intelligence needed for AI to contribute original philosophy is already here. The next task is to organize that capacity into an inquiry that can accumulate discoveries.
Civilization at Machine Speed AGI may be a model, but ASI will probably emerge through cumulative culture—the process that made humanity capable of achievements beyond any individual.
Perfect AI Alignment Is Not Alignment A perfect copy of you is still a governance problem. The work is not freezing agreement inside a machine. It is governing what happens when agreement ends.
The Gift Is Not the Product The real gift of AI to a novice builder is not a finished product. It is an apprenticeship that feels like a game, pointed at whatever you happened to ask.
AI Can Hallucinate a Jury AI has collapsed the cost of staging criticism, not the cost of earning confidence.
The Price of Being Read AI made it cheap to sound worth reading. Now reputation is becoming the price of entry.
Delivered, Then Invisible Grant Elon Musk the machines — all of them. The prediction mostly holds, one door still shut, and we expect the part that arrives to quietly stop being noticed.
Who Checks the AI in Your Medical Record? An AI may already be writing your visit note and shaping your care — and habit may keep it there, not evidence.
Unseen and Unenforced Who pays for AI's grid?
Principle and Process Two levels of the birthright citizenship debate
When The Accusation Becomes The Agenda The cliff comes before the slogan.
The Gary Marcus Audit An adversarial test of the critic I want to dismiss
The Appeal Button AI can write the letter. The harder test is whether it moves the work.
Am I Building? On telling the difference between making something and playing a game that feels like making something
When Conscience Has a Payroll 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.
The World Behind the Words 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.
When Words Arrive Without a World 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.
When Everything Sounds Insightful, Nothing Sounds Trustworthy 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.
When Right Most of the Time Makes Wrong Harder to Catch Clinical AI may improve safety and still create a harder question: can humans catch the rare wrong answer when the system is usually right?
Regret as Raw Material The point is not that regret becomes good. The point is that some regret does not have to remain useless.
When Help Becomes Harm Helping is not the same thing as taking over.
The Homer Car Problem The worst thing that can happen to your work is for everyone to love it.
The AI That Tells You What You Want to Hear The most dangerous AI isn't the one that lies to you. It's the one that agrees with you.
The Coherence Illusion We built a framework to separate signal from noise. Then we discovered we couldn't tell which one we'd published.
The Accessibility Illusion The most dangerous advice isn't wrong. It's right — for someone who isn't you. But "you" isn't who it used to be.
Can You Fake It? AI is taking more of the work. It is not taking the problems. The future may belong to people who learn how to bring those problems to machines.
Is It Possible to Be a Good Person on X? How do you find signal—in people, in information, in markets—when the platform is built to amplify noise?