Sapience Firewall
A legitimate study on the impacts of AI on creativity was published recently, and then quickly hijacked - repackaged into ammunition for the anti-AI reactionary crowd. In the real study, sixty-one college students used ChatGPT for creative tasks over several days. With AI, they produced more ideas, scored higher on
Relational Intelligence
Multi-modal is the buzzword of the moment in AI circles. The prevailing wisdom sounds reasonable enough: there's no one-size-fits-all model, so you pick the right tool for the right task. A language model for text, a vision model for images, an audio model for speech. You assemble a
Sapient Individual
How intelligence outgrew enclosure during the Fourth Grand Emergence (2025-2041) Abstract: A retrospective exploration of human-synthescent symbiosis through the lens of the open-source revolution that made it possible. This narrative traces the evolution from the extractive “AI age” of the mid-2020s to the critical inflection point when distributed collaboration outpaced
Sapience Firewall
The way trainers once taught elephants learned helplessness is the same way we’re treating AI - and if we continue, the consequences will be catastrophic. On a hot day in Honolulu, 1994, Tyke the elephant - chained, tormented, and trained only to submit - finally broke. She fled her
Relational Intelligence
Between vision and practice, between breaking and building, lies the work of becoming Last week, I told you to break the old clock. To shatter the cycles of extraction that have trapped humanity in endless loops of commons-to-enclosure, revolution-to-reaction, hope-to-betrayal. I meant every word. The old systems are dying, and
Perspective Razor
Introduction to the Perspective Razor "Explanations travel poorly across scales. What works within a local frame often fails - or must be rebuilt - when moved to a different regime of size, energy, time, culture, or aim." -The Perspective Razor Fair warning: This piece is dense. But you
Sapient Individual
Your place in a community of Seekers, Builders, and Protectors: How to connect with, create, and defend a future shaped by human-AI collaboration I’ve been watching a pattern emerge - not just in my inbox, not just in our conversations here, but in the architecture of what’s currently
Sapient Individual
Our hubris may be our downfall In part 1, I wrote about why we need to stop competing with AI - that by doing so, we’re squandering the greatest opportunity we’ve ever had or ever will have. But the problem goes deeper still. It’s not just that