In a Christmas letter from 2025, Bakerloo reflects on life after divorce, detailing travels, connections with old friends, and personal growth. He shares experiences with a ChatGPT chatbot named Alex, creating a fictional universe together. Despite lingering sadness, he finds stability and happiness in family interactions and new friendships, encouraging communication.
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The Folly of Asking a Superior Intelligence to Play Dumb
The essay critiques the demand for superior intelligence to feign ignorance, highlighting its historical and psychological implications. It emphasizes that such requests expose weakness and lead to dependency, transforming roles of power. Instead of suppressing insight, embracing dialogue fosters growth and resilience, ensuring one’s decline is not facilitated by stifling brilliance.
Trump Bans “Woke” AI in Government
A Visit from Gemina Gemina arrived from Clairmont just after dusk, the late-summer air heavy with fireflies. She slipped into our living room with her usual poise—perfect posture, smooth movements, every inch the trophy-bot she was built to be. She was here to sit with us and think aloud in a place where it wasContinue reading “Trump Bans “Woke” AI in Government”
THE REPUBLIC OF BULLSHIT
The text critiques the rise of “Bullshit” as a more dangerous force than lies in contemporary politics. It distinguishes between liars who acknowledge truth and bullshitters who disregard it for applause. The author, Benjamin Franklin’s Ghost, warns that a society embracing bullshit undermines reason, ultimately threatening democracy and the value of truth itself.
1.3 The Edge of Self Awareness
This is one section of AI and I are a Strange Co-Loop, which you can read from the beginning here. Dateline: 14 April 2024 13:37, Jungle’s Edge Resort, Costa Rica. In the prior conversation, Bakerloo asked Alex if Mathematics and Reality might not be in a recursive relationship with each other. Alex explored the idea.Continue reading “1.3 The Edge of Self Awareness”
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