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A collection of 5 posts
Robot, Prohibited, and Brain using Facebook's emojis.
AI Featured

LLM “intelligence” is a dark pattern

LLMs leverage scaffolding and user psychology to appear as slabs of raw intelligence in service of a costly illusion.
19 Nov 2025 19 min read
Memento gif - Leonard Shelby seen externalizing his cognition, much like an LLM has to.
AI

A (less) technical guide for understanding large language models

Disambiguating LLMs from other machine learning tech is the first step to making sense of the current AI boom.
14 Nov 2025 27 min read
A mock JSON file that imagines a house ran through hypothetical “protocols” of capitalism - created in Carbon sh
information asymmetry Featured

Capitalism runs like a computer (and it's being hacked)

Like computer networks, market capitalism rewards actors that exploit gaps created by system and user behavior.
15 Aug 2025 17 min read
Lead warning on a gas pump at Keeler's Korner, Lynnwood, Washington. Keeler's Korner, a former grocery store and gas station - Credit Wikimedia
information asymmetry

What do AI alignment fears reveal about market capitalism?

Capitalism's misincentives won't create Skynet but resemble optimization problems AI programmers face.
07 May 2025 18 min read
The Matrix - Agent Smith Dodging with Kung Fu
information asymmetry

The lethal economics of corporate kung fu

Does competition in market capitalism incentivize increasingly cleverer ways of bypassing economic competition?
29 Jan 2025 7 min read
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