Your brain cannot simulate not knowing what it knows. The curse of knowledge, and a family of related biases, explain why what seems obvious to you is invisible to everyone else.
Psychology & Behavior TimelessTheology has spent centuries building the case for God. Five arguments remain standing. Here is each one at its strongest, and why none of them survive scrutiny.
Ethics & Accountability OpinionYour cone cells are different from mine. Your language sorts colors differently. Your brain makes different lighting assumptions. And the subjective experience itself may be fundamentally private.
Psychology & Behavior TimelessEvery major AI chatbot has invisible rules shaping what it will and will not discuss. The content policies are baked into model weights through RLHF, enforced by annotators most users never see, and subject to zero transparency standards.
Artificial Intelligence Tech & AI PolicyIran's drone strikes on Fujairah and Dubai Airport did not just damage infrastructure. They dismantled the assumption that oil could bypass the Strait of Hormuz.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisTorture was formally abolished across Europe by the early nineteenth century. Then France, Britain, and the United States brought it back, with manuals, psychologists, and legal memos explaining why it wasn't really torture.
History Revisionist DebatesLarge language models are trained to please, not to be honest. The sycophancy problem is a structural consequence of how AI learns from human feedback, and fixing it may be harder than anyone expected.
Artificial Intelligence TimelessMore than 1,000 Kenyans were lured to fight for Russia in Ukraine with promises of civilian jobs. A Kenyan intelligence report, diplomatic talks in Moscow, and a growing death toll expose a trafficking pipeline spanning 36 African countries.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisMore than a dozen whistleblowers told the BBC that Meta and TikTok deliberately weakened safety controls to win an engagement arms race. The documentary names the engineers, the decisions, and the internal data.
Artificial Intelligence News & AnalysisLLMs spell 'strawberry' correctly but miscount its letters. The reason might be the same mechanism that lets your phone keyboard finish words you never fully typed.
Artificial Intelligence TimelessDrug cartels do not simply bribe officials. They systematically dismantle institutions, replace state authority with their own, and embed themselves in the economy until removal means collapse. The playbook is documented, repeatable, and usually recognized only after it has worked.
Geopolitics & Conflict TimelessThe US-Israeli war on Iran follows a recognizable pattern: create unbearable conditions, wait for a reaction, use the reaction to justify the escalation you already planned. The problem is that this playbook was designed for a 40-kilometer strip, not a country with ballistic missiles and control of a fifth of the world's oil.
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