Abundance Has Its Own Perils
AI makes production abundant—but when output outpaces verification, attention, and discovery, genuine value can become harder to find.
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Critical Thinking
31 Posts
The Imperfect Human vs. Almost-Perfect AI: Testing the Micro-Frictions of Nature
AI can explain why a technique works. But can it recognize when an imperfection must be preserved to create a better whole? Explore hunger, creative timing, chess, friction, and the limits of local optimization.
The Last Thing Humans Should Outsource to AI
AI can make our work better and faster. But what happens when we outsource the thinking that develops our own capabilities? A case for using AI as an amplifier, not a substitute for judgment.
The Actionable Intelligence Problem: Does AI Need Superintelligence or Practical Wisdom?
From mathematical breakthroughs and intellectual entertainment to cancer cures, crop yields and measurable human progress.
The Live Notebook: Building a System Where Thinking Never Has to Start from Scratch
A Live Notebook turns a blog into an evolving record of thought: preserving the reasoning behind ideas, reducing cognitive load, and creating bridges between unfinished investigations and completed essays.
Does Free Will Exist—or Is the Question Itself Ill-Defined?
A closer look at free will, causation, randomness, and the self-modifying systems that shape human decisions. Does free will exist—or is the question itself ill-defined?
AI Hallucination: The Flaw or Essence of Discovery ?
Human imagination, scientific conjecture and AI hallucination all involve going beyond established knowledge—but novelty is not the same as error. Explore why discovery may require breaking familiar patterns, switching conceptual dimensions and testing possibilities rigorously.
ASI Is Not a Universal Solvent: The Fundamental Limits of Problem-Solving Intelligence
Superintelligence may discover extraordinary solutions—and reveal why some problems have no solution under their defining constraints. Explore physical, mathematical and epistemic limits on solvability.
Borrowed Authority — Bonus Article: The Mathematics of Conspiracy
How mathematical patterns, sacred geometry, numerical coincidences and esoteric symbolism can lend authority to claims that go beyond the evidence—and how to test the connections.
Borrowed Authority — Part III: The Grand Conspiracy Chart: When Everything Becomes Evidence
How grand conspiracy charts turn real facts, coincidences and associations into sweeping explanations—and how to distinguish verified connections from unsupported inferences.
Is Nirvana ‘The Last Nightmare’ ?
What happens when we see through inherited beliefs but struggle to find new meaning? The Last Nightmare explores the descent from intellectual freedom into existential uncertainty—and why awareness must ultimately lead us back to living.
Academic Disciplines: Cognitive Demand and Verifiability
An image-first article presenting a conceptual map of academic disciplines through graph-paper infographics and visual models. Minimal text; no conventional long-form narrative. The placements are illustrative, not statistically measured rankings.
What ChatGPT Learned About Me Through My Interactions
I asked ChatGPT to estimate my intellectual percentile based on our conversations. Its answer revealed both unusual strengths—and a weakness that may matter more than the score.
Borrowed Authority — Part II: Flat Earth: When Myth Becomes Science
Flat Earth is a useful case study in how an old cosmological belief can accumulate historical authority, observations, experiments, scientific terminology and institutional distrust until it begins to look like a scientific system.