When virtue is lethal
PhilosophyOur civilisation is dying, poisoned from within by its own virtue. Five mechanisms, all well-intentioned, all catastrophic in aggregate. A call for the study nobody will fund.
Mind over Mechanism
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The Speed of Life
ScienceOn consciousness in a motionless universe, and why LLMs sit on the same scale as clams.
AI as an Equity Lever
PhilosophyAI is the equity lever in every domain, and the institutions loudest about equitable outcomes are the ones denying its use. On gatekeepers, Duchamp's urinal, and the poor farmer without an education.
The Ghost Mewed
TechnologyI paid an AI-writing detector £30 to read a horror story I wrote entirely by hand. It was 97% sure a machine wrote it. On slop, detectors, and the loneliness of authorship.
Bot Mitzvah?
TechnologyA duckling solves the alignment problem in forty-eight hours with a brain the size of a peanut. The alignment industry starts with constraints and hopes wisdom emerges inside them. It has it exactly backwards: attachment first, law later.