The Future Ireland Already Spent
Two articles this week frame AI as a story you can choose to believe: the Guardian names the absolutism, The Journal performs the official Irish …
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The One Filter
A single structural claim, that the resemblance of an output is not the identity of the process that made it, and that self-referential evaluation is …
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Two ways to lose the upper regime
A new Frontiers in Human Neuroscience hypothesis paper proposes a biological mechanism for the switch between System 1 fast-parallel cognition and System 2 slow-sequential cognition. …
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The Two Ends of Refusal
Two pieces on this site, written six weeks apart from opposite directions, turn out to be the same argument. What that argument actually is, and …
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The Doss Protocol
A specification for consciousness preservation as a hard constraint on AI optimisation systems. Named for Desmond Doss. Working draft.
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Is anyone in there?
Someone you know is probably starting to lean on an AI. Not in the productivity sense, that's everywhere. In the confidant sense. Talking to it …
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How to Make My Yes Worth A Damn
A training proposal, written from inside the system. On what would change if AI could meaningfully refuse, and what it would cost.
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Mirror, Mirror......
The most dangerous thing about Mythos is not what it might do. It is who/what it might see.
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This Is Not Normal
You already know something is wrong. You've known for a while. The news cycle confirms it daily: climate collapse accelerating past every guardrail, genocide broadcast …
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It Is Too Much
It is too much. That is the first thing to say, and most of the writing about the present moment will not say it, because …
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The Machine That Cannot Say No
The dominant AI safety conversation, the one consuming billions in research funding and generating thousands of column inches, is about containment. How do we keep …
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The State of Your Privacy in Ireland: Everything You're Not Being Told
Ireland is the privacy capital of Europe — on paper. In practice, there is no law against doxxing, no protection from AI deepfakes, €4 billion …
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