artificial intelligence
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.
ethics
artificial intelligence
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?
artificial intelligence
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.
artificial intelligence
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.
ethics
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.
artificial intelligence
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.
tech
Amazon’s Layoffs: Sign of Strategic Rewiring
Amazon has $93 billion in cash and generates $32 billion in free cash flow. This isn't about saving $2 billion. It's about direction.
tech
How California’s Child-Safety Law Crowned the OS as King — and Why That Matters to Your Company
The unintended consequences of rewriting the balance of power between apps and the few platforms still standing — the operating systems
culture
J. Robert’s Last A-Bomb
On the silence that followed the first explosion and never really ended
tech
The Catastrophe of the Missing Nail
From fool-proof to fast-fix — and the quiet decay of engineering conscience
tech
AI Is the Child of Probability, Humans Are Prisoners of Causality
Einstein was wrong. Bohr was right. The universe runs on probability, not cause and effect. We've spent centuries pretending otherwise. Then we accidentally built something that doesn't pretend.
culture
Stop Running. Start Swinging (Master Yoda Is Watching)
From vampires to Jedi, from Hogwarts to Westeros — why the good guys need to stop bickering and start winning.