Make a Skill
A skill is a saved set of rules an AI model loads when the topic fits. They take ten minutes to build and end the constant re-explaining.
CIqSi
Carbon intelligence bonds with silicon intelligence. Essays on AI, human-machine collaboration, and what it means to think alongside the tools we build.
The Name
Carbon
Organic, biological, embodied
The intelligence of living things — pattern-recognizing, context-sensitive, prone to distraction and wonder. Carbon-based thinking has been running for four billion years. It is strange, inefficient, and difficult to replicate.
Intelligence
Fictional, bridging, catalytic
The made-up atom in the middle of the molecule. Intelligence is the invented element that lets carbon and silicon form a useful compound instead of sitting apart as separate materials.
Silicon
Digital, scalable, tireless
The substrate of language models, neural networks, and their descendants. Fast, vast, and oddly good at things we thought were uniquely human. Silicon thinking is strange, efficient, and difficult to understand.
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What You're Really Giving Up in Every Agreement
One prompt turns an unreadable agreement into a list of what you are giving up. It pays off most on the contracts nobody would ever pay a lawyer to look at — which is nearly all of them.
The Secret to Perfect AI Outputs: Name the Canon
Nearly every established discipline has a canonical reference that already settled the argument you're having with a model. Name it, hand it over, and let the model regularize its own work against a standard instead of your improvised feedback.
The Placebo Effect That Works Even When You Know It's Fake
Open-label placebos work on patients who were told, in writing, that the pill is inert. Richard Dawkins' recent essays about Claude are the same finding, running on a different substrate.