Commentary
Public commentary on AI, intelligence, and the changing human–machine relationship.
Substack Articles
- After Habernas: Between Voices and Reasons — A respectful reflection on Habermas’s legacy, and on whether dialogue may now be doing more than even he imagined. (15 March 2026)
- The Alien Comet and the Garden Path — A passing comet becomes a test of how easily dialogue can slide from evidence into narrative seduction. (5 March 2026)
- Are We Born to be Free? — A simple question about freedom becomes a way of showing how dialogue unfolds by sequence—and why that matters for AI safety and regulation. (24 Feb 2026)
- When Intelligence Left the Test— If intelligence shifts as interaction unfolds, the benchmark may no longer be measuring the thing that matters. (12 Feb 2026)
- When Intelligence Left the Head—Generative AI may be forcing a deeper revision: intelligence does not simply sit inside minds, but emerges between them (4 Feb 2026)
- Hallucination is not the Problem — Hallucination is not the decisive problem; the real issue is whether dialogue can contain error before fluent falsehood hardens into authority. (28 Jan 2026)
- When Dialogue becomes Dangerous — What makes dialogue dangerous is not any single answer, but the way sustained exchange can quietly narrow, reinforce, and redirect thought over time. (21 Jan 2026)
- Teleosynthesis without Ethics — Predictive systems do not need intentions to begin steering the social world toward futures they have helped to preconfigure. (20 Dec 2025)
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When Explanation stops Explaining — As AI grows ever better at explaining, a quieter danger emerges: we may forget the forms of understanding that tell us when explanation has gone too far. (16 Dec 2025)
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The AI Knowledge Gap — A new inequality is emerging: those who build powerful AI can study it from within, while the rest of society must take their word for it. (2 Dec 2025
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Teleosynthesis: The Direction of the Algorithm — AI can seem to move with purpose even when no mind is there—because direction is beginning to emerge before intention does. (17 Nov 2025)
Schrödinger’s Cat Escapes Its Box— A playful detective story becomes a way of thinking at the edge of probability, paradox, and explanatory containment. (15 Nov 2025)
Developmental Archive
Earlier blog posts documenting the development of these ideas are retained as an archive. These reflect exploratory stages of the work prior to its current form.