Culture
How shared experience and training data shape what words mean to people and to models.
4 essays, newest first
- $1M for Americans, $1,200 for You. They Called It Good. A flagship AI policy scenario routes the wealth of the whole planet back to one country, pays its citizens a million dollars a year for being born there, and hands everyone else $1,200. It is intelligence colonialism, and its authors call it the good plan.
- Europe Is Running on Rented Intelligence Beijing is moving to wall off its best AI models. The open era is closing, and Europe's real choice is now to build its own intelligence or keep renting its sovereignty.
- I Engineer Illusory Truth for Machines. It's Called GEO. The rule that wins my brand work is to repeat one sentence in the same shape across enough places until a model says it back as fact. That is a named cognitive bias, run on a machine, and I bill for it. A field note on the part I cannot put down.
- The Measure of Misunderstanding If two people unpack the same word into different concepts, the size of that gap is not random. It is a distance, and distance can be measured.
