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More Famous Than the Pope

More Famous Than the Pope

GTE spent billions building distribution. Now distribution is free, and the only scarce resource left is attention. This is not obviously good news.

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.

John McCarthy's Mistake

John McCarthy's Mistake

The man who coined 'artificial intelligence' invented the most elegant language ever designed for it. It was the wrong tool — because it was the wrong category.

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.

What You Had to Do

What You Had to Do

A department of a hundred writers documented mainframe billing programs. Every one of them had something else they'd rather be doing. They knew.

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.