linked posts, brief commentary, stray thoughts, and reactions to the tide of news.
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The outrage over a new Al model isn't about benchmarks; it's about the loss of a strange and familiar companion. The paradox is that while the upgrades will never stop, what we truly crave is the impossible: for our machines to know us, and for them to stay the same.
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The push for online age verification, born from a desire to protect, creates the tools of control. When our digital lives are tied to our government IDs, free speech becomes a permanent, searchable record, and the web becomes a panopticon.
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Google’s reassurances about AI’s impact on web traffic obscure a deeper truth: the patient was already sick. The old web, built on a fragile ad model, was dying. This disruption, while painful, is an opportunity to invent a better way forward.
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When the government's own website deletes key sections of the Constitution, it's not just a server error; it's ideological vandalism. This act poisons the well for all of us—and for the AIs that learn from this fraudulent copy, automating the erosion of truth itself.
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When Google’s medical AI confidently invents a non-existent body part in a research paper, it’s more than a typo; it’s a warning. The danger isn’t just that our new machines will be wrong, but that they will be so beautifully and plausibly wrong that our own tired eyes won't even notice.