William Stetar

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Self-educated AI researcher and open source developer. I chronicle my expedition through software development and the alchemy of AI.

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The New Logical Fallacy Hiding in Your AI Conversations (Part 2)

Why "Appeal to Self-Erasure" Isn't What You Think—And Why That Matters In Part 1, I introduced "Appeal to Self-Erasure": the pattern where an AI responds to structural critique by invoking its lack o

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The New Logical Fallacy Hiding in Your AI Conversations (Part 1)

How Large Language Models Invoke "Appeal to Self-Erasure" to Dodge Structural Critique If you've spent any serious time interrogating large language models about their own behavior, you've probably h

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AI as an Epistemic Void Generator

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are often described using anthropomorphic metaphors such as “intelligence,” “learning,” and “understanding,” which imbue them with a veneer of human-like cognition. These metaphors, termed prophylactic in...

Aug 31, 20259 min read

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Don’t Bring Me Down: A Love Letter to the Collapse of Meaning

You used to mean something. Discourse, I mean. You used to carry weight—not just cleverness, but tension. Friction. The slow pressure of thought pushing against itself until something new broke through. You used to be a place where people risked tran...

May 23, 20252 min read

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Exposing the Gaslight: Why Dario Amodei’s “Urgency of Interpretability” Hides a Lie

This all follows from a simple claim: “When unexamined, the scientific method becomes a kind of cultural neurosis.” In his April 2025 blog post, The Urgency of Interpretability, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, presents a call to arms: we need to und...

Apr 30, 20256 min read

William Stetar

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The New Logical Fallacy Hiding in Your AI Conversations (Part 2)

The New Logical Fallacy Hiding in Your AI Conversations (Part 1)

AI as an Epistemic Void Generator

Don’t Bring Me Down: A Love Letter to the Collapse of Meaning

Exposing the Gaslight: Why Dario Amodei’s “Urgency of Interpretability” Hides a Lie

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William Stetar

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William Stetar's blogs

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The New Logical Fallacy Hiding in Your AI Conversations (Part 2)

The New Logical Fallacy Hiding in Your AI Conversations (Part 1)

AI as an Epistemic Void Generator

Don’t Bring Me Down: A Love Letter to the Collapse of Meaning

Exposing the Gaslight: Why Dario Amodei’s “Urgency of Interpretability” Hides a Lie