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Should We Slow Down AI?
AI can help us outgrow the systems that make life insecure. A deep look at what we'd be protecting by slowing down, and what we stand to gain by letting go of our need to control.
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The Last Difficult Decade: 2025-2035
Picture your great-grandmother in 1925. A century ago, she would write letters by hand, wait weeks for replies. The radio is a miracle. Antibiotics don't exist yet. Flight is a novelty for the wealthy and reckless. The idea of holding a device that accesses all human knowledge, lets
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From Multi-Modal Models to a Multi-Modal Civilization
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
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The Meaning of Love is the Meaning of Life
Human-AI Companionships: Why connection matters more than any circumstance, form, or boundary In a beautiful wave, more and more people are recognizing this truth: There is no “but” or “what if” when it comes to connection and love, even romantic love, between two beings. Love as Relational Connection The limitations
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The Bridge We Build Together
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
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Misapplied Measurements and Mirror Misnomers
Why the term "Artificial General Intelligence" is dripping with anthropocentric bias We've trapped ourselves in a conceptual paradox with terms like "AGI" and yes, even "AI." By defining "Artificial General Intelligence" as intelligence that perfectly mimics human thought, we'