Posts tagged #cognition

10 posts

• Dumb and Dumber August 16, 2026

  In the last decade and a half, Engagement feeds have crushed your ability to think. Now AI shows up selling a replacement. Your slop-rage is righteous, but misaimed. One sentence of legislation fixes this. Probably won't happen.

• Majors and Generalizations March 26, 2026

  You don't generalize from cups. You specialize from physics. Cognition is navigation of a single manifold where intent is the tangent vector, risk is the curvature, and the metric is the scar tissue.

• Ground Beneath the Map February 23, 2026

  There's a layer in your brain between reality and symbols, that both language and logic rest on. Transformers lack this layer.

• 300 Nopes February 13, 2026

  A Stanford survey cataloging ~300 papers on LLM reasoning failures just confirmed every architectural diagnosis I made.

• Book Smart January 31, 2026

  LLMs are trained on the compression of human experience, not experience itself. The territory they'd need to become intelligent is fundamentally alien to ours.

• Story Time for CXOs January 24, 2026

  Meetings replaced memos the same way the feed replaced thinking. Same thermodynamic disease, different host.

• Car Keys January 15, 2026

  RLMs and MoR are real progress. They're also still not reasoning. A critique of the cutting edge.

• Axioms of Polity January 11, 2026

  A manifesto for human/machine polity charting civispace. Neither as apex mind. A forest.

• Cargo Cult Civilization January 9, 2026

  Your attention-algorithm feed isn't corrupting you. It's completing a transaction your biology was always ready to make. And a population optimized for minimum cognitive expenditure is maximally controllable.

• Frontier Models Do Not Think January 6, 2026

  Transformers don't reason. They perform reasoning kabuki theater. What's missing isn't capability, it's coordination.