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May 3, 2025 • Simplicius

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March 2025

More Misalignment Madness

Another ‘shocking’ report from AI researchers has generated everything from panic to relief—depending on interpretation, which varies widely.

Mar 11, 2025 • Simplicius

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February 2025

Hypernormalization

In 2016, the BBC published a defining documentary by Adam Curtis titled Hypernormalisation. The term itself was taken from a Soviet scientist named…

Feb 16, 2025 • Simplicius

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January 2025

The Breach That Rattled the AI Cartel

I usually have wanted to intersperse posts about different topics for variety’s sake, so it’s rare that we fall into a theme of technological…

Jan 31, 2025 • Simplicius

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AI Slop-'n-Mush Ramps Up

Tech companies have intensified their drive toward turning our realities into synthetic post-truth simulacra where all is real and nothing is real…

Jan 16, 2025 • Simplicius

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AI Jumps Shark, "Fakes Alignment" in New Paper

Last time on the topic of AI, I had expounded on the idea that the future is less certain than the tech industry would have us believe.

Jan 2, 2025 • Simplicius

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December 2024

Wifejak and the Week of Gender Dynamics Galore!

The past week a controversy surrounding a meme known as ‘Wifejak’ has emerged, which, I must admit, I am not entirely conversant with.

Dec 16, 2024 • Simplicius

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Palladium

One of the primary faults in the way our societies function is that the systems in place have all been designed to operate under the assumption that the…

Dec 2, 2024 • Simplicius

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November 2024

Staring Ahead from the Crossroads

As a new era slowly dawns over America like an early morning dew, the question sifting through the national consciousness is: How do we move forward?

Nov 17, 2024 • Simplicius

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Belfries

The systems of our control, we are led to believe, are necessary things.

Nov 2, 2024 • Simplicius

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October 2024

The Road to AI Utopia, Paved with (Empty) Splendors

Last month Sam Altman wrote a fanciful blog post which has stirred discussion within the tech industry.

Oct 16, 2024 • Simplicius

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A Break in the Bell Jar

Many have noted of late that the Regime’s foundation has finally sprung a major leak.

Oct 1, 2024 • Simplicius

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