Feb 9 · 8 min read · You hear about new AI every day. Some write stories. Some make pictures. Some chat with you. But Genie 3 is different. It doesn't just create things - it creates entire worlds. Let's compare it to other AI and see why it's special. How Is Genie 3 Dif...
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Jan 20 · 11 min read · The Crime Scene In Part I and Part II, we proved that LLMs don’t discover “Platonic forms”—they compress corpus statistics. The models haven’t escaped the cave; they’ve just memorized the shadows perfectly. But this revelation creates a new question:...
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Jan 19 · 11 min read · The Central Claim “Reasoning models generate societies of thought.” This headline from Google and the University of Chicago (Kim et al., arXiv:2601.10825) represents a fundamental misunderstanding of how transformers work. The researchers claim DeepS...
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Jan 18 · 11 min read · The Crime Scene In Part I, we dismantled the myth that AI models are discovering “Platonic Forms” of reality. We found that they haven’t escaped the cave; they’ve just memorized the shadows. But if they aren’t modeling reality, what are they doing? T...
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Jan 17 · 13 min read · Anthropic recently published a defense of their safety approach that deserves scrutiny. Their argument is simple: pre-training filtering (removing dangerous knowledge before training) doesn’t work, but Constitutional Classifiers (teaching models to r...
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Jan 9 · 14 min read · The Crime Scene “Distinct AI models seem to converge on how they encode reality.” That’s the headline from Quanta Magazine this month, covering MIT’s “Platonic Representation Hypothesis” paper. The pitch is seductive: as AI models get larger and more...
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Dec 30, 2025 · 6 min read · Introduction Modern machine learning models are increasingly deployed in safety-critical, high-stakes environments—healthcare, finance, autonomous systems, and infrastructure monitoring. Yet, despite impressive benchmark performance, most models rema...
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Dec 19, 2025 · 6 min read · There’s a question beneath the AI hype that no one’s quite answering honestly: What exactly is a transformer doing when it “reasons”? Some will tell you it’s just a stochastic parrot—a glorified autocomplete with no understanding whatsoever. Others i...
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Dec 17, 2025 · 10 min read · For years, the central question in AI has been some variation of: “Is it truly intelligent?” Proponents point to dazzling capabilities—solving novel Olympic-level mathematics problems, generating coherent proofs, achieving human-level performance on ...
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Dec 16, 2025 · 15 min read · Since 2017, the AI industry has been trapped in what I’ve called a New Medievalism—spending billions to build increasingly elaborate bestiaries of “reasoning” behaviors while refusing to examine the biology of the beast itself. We scale parameters, e...
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