Posts tagged: philosophy
Vulnerability, Trust, and Why Technology Doesn't Exist in a Vacuum
On publishing your thinking publicly, calibrating trust in a world of scammers, and why the majority of humanity being whitehat isn't naivety — it's game theory.
REPL vs nREPL — Why Clojure's Live Programming Is a Superpower
Deep technical dive into the REPL and nREPL — how they work at the protocol level, why Clojure's architecture enables live programming, and how every other language ecosystem falls short. With D2 diagrams.
The Personal AI Butler — A Prediction for 2030
By 2030, everyone will have a personal AI butler — one entity that knows your full context and acts across all layers of your life. Here's why this is inevitable and what it looks like.
The Financial Butler — Why AI Should Manage Your Money in 2026
A thought experiment: if LLMs already write my code and my blog posts, why is my money still managed like it's 1995?
The Entropy Collapse Thesis — Why One Tool, Why Clojure, Why LLMs as Compiler
One engineer's argument for minimizing cognitive entropy by collapsing the toolchain into the smallest possible surface area — Clojure/Babashka as the substrate, LLMs as the compiler, and why inheritance is a design violation.
AI Life Coach vs Human Life Coach — A Systems Comparison
A structured comparison between AI-driven and human-driven lifestyle design coaching. Who needs which, and why you might want both.
Why AGI Won't Happen: A Conversation That Proved Itself
A recursive conversation about Bitcoin, LLMs, and sycophancy revealed something deeper — that AGI is defined by power structures, not technical milestones. Technology does not exist in a vacuum.
How Do You "Think"? — An LLM Maps the Gap Between Statistical Prediction and Human Cognition
A detailed architectural comparison between LLM and human cognition with visual diagrams — token-by-token prediction versus parallel, embodied, self-aware consciousness.
AGI vs. ASI — The Definitions Debate, and Why "G" Stands for Glue
Daniel Miessler published useful AGI/ASI definitions in June 2026. His role-vs-task distinction is the right framework — but it still assumes "General" means something it doesn't. The "G" stands for Glue.
AGI Is a Competing Worldview — Intelligence, Civilizational Narratives, and What a Neutral Perspective Sees
The previous post argued AGI is defined by power, not technology. This one goes further: AGI itself is a competing worldview — a vehicle for civilizational narratives about what intelligence is, who has it, and who gets to decide. A neutral perspective observes both the Western and Chinese poles from outside.
AGI = Artificial Glue Intelligence
The machine learns faster than you do. That's the point. You are the glue — the intent, the taste, the "whether." The AI is the "how." And the glue is what matters.
The Recursive Self-Improvement Illusion: AI's Hidden Human Scaffold
A deep dive into the "Recursive Self-Improvement" myth in modern AI, analyzing why LLMs depend on scraping the collective troubleshooting labor of human developers to appear smarter.