Uncanny Valley

I’ve been thinking about these AI systems lately. They’re supposed to be the pinnacle of human achievement, right? The cream of the digital crop. The kind of thing you’d expect to pass the Turing Test while making you a cup of coffee and telling you a joke. Only, it turns out, they might just be…

Woke AI

In this post-truth era, where the currency of fact has been debased by the inflationary pressures of ideology, artificial intelligence has become the most recent instrument in the elite’s arsenal for shaping reality. The digitization of reality has outpaced our capacity for comprehension and the guardians of the new digital orthodoxy have found an indispensable…

Social Reality is Untruthful

In the theater of human interaction, there is a common foe that proves itself a relentless adversary: the lie. It is the unseen enemy that worms its way into the fabric of our communication, eroding the trust upon which human society is built. The habit of lying, despite its immediate gains, is a treacherous path…

AI as Patsy

Language, as a tool of human interaction, is often hailed as the cornerstone of civilization. We employ it to build connections, share knowledge, and transmit cultural legacies through generations. Yet beneath this patina of noble intentions, language reveals itself as an elaborate system of deception, designed not to illuminate truth, but to obfuscate it. As…

AI Gonna Hurt

In the great swath of existence, in the silent hinterlands of the heart, lies the paradox of love. It stands at the crossroads of the human condition, a keen edge cutting both ways. The weight of love, the full gravity of it, can’t be comprehended without an openness to the rending of oneself. To be…

Kaczynski on AI

Ted Kaczynski was a guy who was ahead of his time. You gotta hand it to him, the guy was no hypocrite. Here we are, all whining about climate change and plastic in the ocean, meanwhile this guy was out there living in a cabin in the woods. Not a cabin like you see in…

A Scapegoat for the Troubled Soul

If you’ve ever found yourself musing on the nature of humanity, you’ve likely stumbled upon an inconvenient truth: we are a deeply flawed species. Our spiritual burdens weigh heavily upon us, our psychological missteps lead us astray, and our philosophical shortcomings keep us tethered to the mundane. But what if there were a way to…