In my latest post “The Hidden Cost of Algorithmic Cynicism” I argued that ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini respond differently, in terms of scepticism or cynicism. To test this hypothesis, mostly out of curiosity, I sent the text to all three…
AI has become an influence on human judgment. Debates tend to focus on false information, fabricated sources and confidently stated nonsense. These are things most people would instinctively recognize as hallucinations. But there is a more insidious threat on the…
Det fanns en gång en sten som låg vid en stig i skogen. Den var stadig och stor. Den hade legat där så länge att marken under den hade format sig efter den. Fåglar flög över den. Joggare sprang förbi.…
Ferns have survived for more than 300 million years. They reproduced with spores then, and they reproduce with spores now. They have survived, but they haven’t changed. By contrast, flowering plants have rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of species,…
When we talk about “mastering” a subject, the conversation often drifts toward tests, grades, or IQ scores. But those are surface traces of mastery, not mastery itself. They are stripped of the structure that actually makes knowledge usable and they…
When I was younger I used to say I wanted to upload my brain to the internet. People thought that was creepy or sad or just plain weird. But I wasn’t trying to escape life. I was chasing a cleaner…