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This is my show. It’s a blog as hupomnemata. Michael Foucault defined hupomnemata as a personal notebook similar to a spiritual journal but with a different goal. He did not want “to pursue the unspeakable, nor to reveal the hidden, nor to say the unsaid [like a spiritual journal does], but on the contrary to capture the already said, to collect what one has managed to hear or read, and for a purpose that is nothing less than the shaping of the self.”
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Note: This dialogue has been condensed from a multi-model transcript. The original conversation involved recursive loops where models (Grok, Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot) read each other’s outputs, lost track of their own identities, and...
Date: December 19, 2025Method: UKE_G Recursive TriangulationTarget: “Evaluating Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery” (SDE Benchmark) Two days ago, a new benchmark paper dropped claiming to evaluate how well large language...
Technically, zuihitsu are longer reflections than what I tend to collect. But, the general idea is right. Here’s this month’s installment. If you want the complete set, please download the fortune file. History doesn’t turn on hunger. It...
We have all been there. You are in a comment section or a group chat. Someone says something that isn’t just wrong—it’s fundamentally confused. Maybe they think an AI chatbot is a conscious person because it said “I’m sad.” Maybe they...
When people ask how we will control an Artificial Intelligence that is smarter than us, the standard answer sounds very sensible: “Humans can’t see germs, so we invented the microscope. We can’t see ultraviolet light, so we built...
We’re racing to build artificial intelligence that’s smarter than us. The hope is that AI could solve climate change, cure diseases, or transform society. But most conversations about AI safety focus on the wrong question. The usual...
There’s a playground in the Netherlands made of discarded shipping pallets and construction debris. Rusty nails stick out everywhere. Little kids climb on it with hammers, connecting random pieces together. One false step and you’re...
The Speech In The Gambler (2014), loan shark Frank explains success to degenerate gambler Jim Bennett: You get up two and a half million dollars, any asshole in the world knows what to do: you get a house with a 25 year roof, an...
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“What did the Buddhist say to the hot-dog vendor?” “Make me one with everything.” And then, somebody’s later addition… The hot-dog vendor makes him his hot-dog with all the trimmings, and says, “That’ll be $7.50.” The Buddhist reaches...