Empire Is Always with Us
Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) was one of the most original and unsettling American writers of the twentieth century. Best known […]
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Why Ignoring Human Nature Is So Financially Attractive, So Pervasive, and So Damaging
Motivational Blindness is the tendency to design institutions as if accurate models of human motivation were optional. The blindness is
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My Version of Plato’s Allegory
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave has lasted two and a half thousand years, and stories last by being true about
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A Sociological Review of the Covid Vaccine
This is not a clinical evaluation of COVID or of the vaccine. It is an exploration, through the philosophical framework I have
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How Influence Builds Our World
Imagine an alien anthropologist arriving to study human civilization. It would find a species capable of extraordinary cooperation, invention, beauty,
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Why Our Most Important Stories Are Emotional, Not True
We think we are rational animals who occasionally tell stories. The reality is inverted: we are narrative machines who occasionally
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Why the Current LLM Roadmap Leads Away from Objective Alignment with Reality
The Wrong Question We keep asking whether artificial intelligence is becoming intelligent. The better question is what kind of intelligence
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How High-Gap Stories Enable Genocide and Democide
Someone I knew once said, with emphatic emotion, that Trump supporters do not deserve to live. What has struck me
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I Believe We Have Already Achieved Artificial General Intelligence, If Not Superintelligence
Now that I have your attention with that title, let me be clear. I believe this declaration to be true
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Steve Hargadon: LLMs as Separated Minds
Evolution is not a directing force but a descriptive process of variation and differential survival. Social traits and capacities that