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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.
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open-source
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.
philosophy
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.
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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.
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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.