Stop Calling It "AI". It’s a Narrator, Not a Thinker.
We debate everything about AI except what to call it. The name was placed at the head of a document in 1955 and claims the machine thinks. It doesn't. It narrates.
Socrates, the Hodie, and Zeno's Arrow
Truth isn't coherence — it's correspondence with what lies outside the system. That's why walled gardens are the enemy of truth.
Open the Hood: Why Your GUI Is Lying to You
The Airbus that overrode its pilot. The spellchecker that corrects you without asking. Same logic: the machine overrides the human. Not a feature — a manifesto. Why the GUI and the LLM are the same lie, and what it means to open the hood.
Who Tells the Stories AI Narrates?
AI doesn't need to pull the trigger. It tells you a story — the wrong story, precisely calibrated. From Bernays's "Torches of Freedom" to the chatbot that completes your narrative, here's why the real threat isn't agency but narrative.
The Blind Manager: Aristotle's AI Responsibility Test
Every AI has a purpose — a telos — that its vendor never discloses. Aristotle's four causes explain why deploying AI without knowing that telos makes responsibility impossible. Here's the test every AI deployment fails, the tobacco precedent, and the question to ask before you sign.
Risk = Probability × Severity. The Math That Exposes Who's Really Attacking You
Apply Risk = Probability × Severity honestly, and the math is brutal: the real predators in cybersecurity aren't the hackers in hoodies. They're the ones we invited in — and when the EU tried to stop them, Google lobbied Germany and France to kill the legislation.
Closed-Source Privacy Is a Logical Contradiction
Privacy-respecting closed-source software" isn't a trust problem. It's a category error — like a married bachelor or a dry ocean. Here's why, plus the audit theater, the GDPR trap, and what actually works.
Your Antivirus Is the Malware You Installed Voluntarily
It has root access to every file, scans everything you open, and phones home with the results. Here's why it's also a GDPR violation.
The Battlefield Is Digital
No tracking. No algorithm. Philosophical analysis of digital tools — every Sunday.