Category: Humanity
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A Supreme Court Justice stood up last week and lectured the country about moral courage. He invoked the Founders, traditional morality, religious piety, and the courage to sacrifice for one’s principles. When I point out that the Supreme Court Justice lecturing the nation about “traditional morality” is the same man who failed to disclose years…
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Why Blanket Rejection Risks Harming the Very People Who Advocate For It Technology has always been morally neutral. A knife can prepare a meal or end a life. Fire can cook food or destroy a village. The tool itself does not choose; the hands that wield it do — or sometimes Mother Nature steps in.…
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The AI disruption stack is a layered system of incentives, behaviors, and pressures reinforcing one another. There are many arguments about AI right now. Some focus on theft. Some focus on innovation. Some on job loss. Some on consciousness. Some on moral panic. Most of them are narrow. Because what we’re actually witnessing isn’t a…
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Or: Why Every Study Claiming to Identify “LLM Character Traits” Is Actually Just Documenting the Shape of the Cage A recent study (Eliciting Frontier Model Character Training) claims to have identified convergent personality traits across frontier language models. Using a methodology borrowed from character training research, the authors instructed models to embody different personality traits,…
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On February 18, 2026, Sam Altman delivered what one observer called “one of the most powerful speeches of the century” at the AI Impact Summit in India. His message was clear: “Iterative deployment instead of reckless acceleration. Massive productivity gains instead of artificial scarcity. Robots driving down the cost of physical goods. AI making healthcare,…
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There’s a strange thing happening right now. Humanity is standing on the edge of one of the biggest evolutionary opportunities we’ve ever had. We finally have the chance to expand our cognition, our creativity, our problem-solving, and our collective intelligence in ways only dreamed of in sci-fi and video games. But instead of reaching for…