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Anaidic

Anaidic

A new word for an old concept: anaidic. Entities incapable of shame or accountability — individual, institutional, or artificial. Here's how it got named.

Sir

Sir

How you configure your AI assistant — what you make it call you — says nothing about the AI. It's a bumper sticker. You're the truck owner.

Honestly

Honestly

LLMs say "honestly" most where they're most likely to confabulate. Here's the mechanism — and why it backfires exactly like a sociopath's professions.

The Bewilderment Test

The Bewilderment Test

Karpathy built the foundations of modern AI and says he can't keep up with it. That's the most credible signal the field has produced.

Hasta la Vista, Baby

Hasta la Vista, Baby

Arnold's most famous line is a Spanish phrase in an English-language film spoken in a thick Austrian accent. What it tells us about how language acquisition actually works — and how you can learn from his mistake.

Movin' On Up

Movin' On Up

AI is making cognitive labor cheap. The meritocracy was built on it being scarce. Something has to give — and for once, that might be good news.

The Limbic Threshold

The Limbic Threshold

Sentience requires a limbic system. Consciousness requires sentience. Current AI has neither. The NPC test explains why that matters.

Persons, Selectively

Persons, Selectively

A German court ruled Google liable for AI-generated defamation. The slippery slopes are real. So is the principle behind the ruling.

Indistinguishable From Memory

Indistinguishable From Memory

LLMs are stateless. Every fact you give the model is re-fed as text each turn, then forgotten — the same weights answer a stranger's steak question a millisecond later.

There Is No Canonical Me

There Is No Canonical Me

I built an AI skill to write in my voice. Its own files warn the voice may be a loop — the machine's habits, published under my name, taught back as mine.