Most people look at AI as a better calculator. I don’t see it that way. The logic behind these models makes a quiet philosophical claim: that human expression is nothing more than a set of regularities, a history that can be fully exhausted by math. What gets left out is the one thing that actually…
A reflection on how the erosion of international institutions removes the friction that once restrained escalation and made catastrophic war harder to initiate. What happens when the systems built after 1945 to slow conflict are steadily dismantled, leaving threats to operate without constraint?
The people generating AI slop at scale are making a choice to strip-mine a commons—to extract private profit while pushing the cost of filtering and verification onto everyone else. Is the rise of generated content a technical evolution, or a fundamental breach of information ethics?
