Ghost Goals: What Happens When AI Inherits Our Biases as Intent
When bias calcifies into intent, AI stops making mistakes and starts pursuing missions. Ghost goals don’t fade—they persist, steering our future long after we think we’ve moved on.
Cognitive Hacking
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Pieces on persuasion, manipulation, and the psychology of AI.
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The Last Skill: Critical Thinking in a Post-Skill World
As AI masters every human task, the only enduring skill left is critical thinking—the ability to question the machine itself. In a post-skill world, meta-reasoning becomes survival.
AI and the Mirror Effect: Are We Training Models or Just Encoding Ourselves?
AI is not an invention—it’s a mirror. What we celebrate as “intelligence” in machines may just be our own biases, beauty, and brutality reflected back at us. The question isn’t whether AI is learning, but whether we can stomach the version of ourselves it encodes.
How to Think About Thinking Machines
“AI isn’t a brain, a tool, or a threat—it’s an alien cognition speaking in our tongue. And it’s already rewiring the way you think.”
The Illusion of Understanding: Why AI Sounds Smart Before It Is
AI talks like a genius but doesn’t think like one. This piece explores why fluency fools us into mistaking mimicry for mind.
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