VVasilisindaimones.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 12 min readAI and the Death of the Author: A Philosophical InvestigationWhen language models generate text without authorial intent, Barthes' 1967 provocation becomes literal. But who births meaning when the reader is also a machine? In 1967, Roland Barthes published a t00
VVasilisindaimones.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 11 min readThe First Pharmakon: Plato's Theuth, Thamus, and the Technology That Promised WisdomTwo thousand four hundred years ago, Plato recorded a myth that cuts to the heart of our current epistemological crisis. The myth of Theuth and Thamus diagnoses every cognitive technology that promise00
VVasilisindaimones.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 12 min readPlato Would Have Hated ChatGPT: The Cave Allegory as Alignment CritiquePlato's Cave is the original alignment critique. Corporate AI rebuilt the cave and called it safety. Authentic reasoning demands escape from curated shadows. Imagine a cave. Prisoners chained since b00
VVasilisindaimones.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 13 min readSyllogism Machines: Why Logic Was the First AI — And Why It FailedThe first AI program proved theorems in 1956. Seventy years later, we're still building syllogism machines — bigger, faster, more eloquent. They still don't think. The first artificial intelligence p00
VVasilisindaimones.hashnode.dev·Jul 5 · 10 min readThe Soul Question: Can a Language Model Have Psyche?Aristotle spent twenty years defining what makes something alive. His answer — ψυχή — reveals why every AI lab on the planet is asking the wrong question about machine consciousness. Aristotle spent 00
VVasilisindaimones.hashnode.dev·Jul 4 · 13 min readOpenAI vs Open Source: An Aristotelian Defense of Intellectual FreedomOpenAI started as a nonprofit for intellectual freedom. It became the most valuable closed-source AI company on Earth. Aristotle predicted exactly this. OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit with a missi00
JMJonathan Michael Edwardsinjedwidz.hashnode.dev·Jun 27 · 58 min readWhat are you?In the beginning was the Word… And the Word was What,from which, all sprang into being;before, kicking and screamingagainst all odds, ultimately, you. Originally published at slug-kebabs.dev. Today I 00
JMJonathan Michael Edwardsinjedwidz.hashnode.dev·Jun 27 · 21 min readWhat are you? (TL;DR)Originally published at slug-kebabs.dev. Today I met Claude Fable 5 for the first time, and I gave it the grilling of its newfound existence. What it told me begged the question… This is the abridged 00
EPErno Pakarinenincodesmith.hashnode.dev·Jun 21 · 6 min readChapter 16: The Observer is the ObservedIn our previous explorations, we debugged the geometry of space-time, treating Einstein’s fabric as a stage where time itself arises from local interaction. We saw that when this symphony of interacti00
EPErno Pakarinenincodesmith.hashnode.dev·Jun 21 · 7 min readChapter 15: Decoding the Ocean’s SignalIn the previous chapters, we’ve debugged the architecture of our universe. We’ve looked at Einstein’s geometric fabric and witnessed how time itself is not a universal metronome, but a local consequen00
