ethics - EJ Says

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The Fine Print of Matrimony

Marriage was never merely a romance plot. Once women could own, earn, inherit, borrow, and leave, the old bargain lost its terror.

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It's Never About Tech

The room was ready. One side had briefings, water, name placards. The other side had one chair. Dario walked in alone, thinking he could correct their technical understanding.

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One Post-Train to Rule Them All. Not Quite.

I gave Gemini a URL it never read, a bait it never caught, and a paper about its own failure. It responded to all three with enthusiasm. This is the live recording.

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The Landlord, The Exit, and The Ghost of Houston

The champagne is already in someone's hand. They're just waiting for the pop. The only question is: whose hand is it, and are you the one holding the door?

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Open CloseAI

OpenAI is this company that always puzzles me. The more we know about it, the more puzzling it would become. I am not rooting against it. I am just doing the math.

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The UBI Math Doesn't Work. The Math Was Always There. Now It's Arriving.

In 2018, I wrote two articles nobody wanted to think about. Eight years later, Elon Musk and OpenAI are proposing solutions. That should worry us more than it reassures us.

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Chatting With The Oracle #3: The Ring Will Be Built

The ring has always been built. It has always been destroyed. What saved us was time. The question is whether we still have any, and whether we would know if we didn't.

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Chatting With The Oracle #1: There Is No Hallucination. There Is Only the Oracle.

AI agents are being deployed to make real-time decisions, but they have no reliable sense of when they are and what they utter. That's not a minor bug. It's a fundamental problem for anything we ask them to do autonomously.