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Illustration inspired by The Twilight Zone episode “To Serve Man,” showing a Kanamit alien holding the book “To Serve Man” as humans gather beneath alien spacecraft.

The Twilight Zone’s "To Serve Man" Was Never About Aliens — It Was About Surrendering Judgment

Everyone remembers The Twilight Zone’s “To Serve Man” as a story about alien deception. But the aliens never lied. The failure came earlier—when humans stopped translating carefully, mistook relief for understanding, and surrendered judgment to someone else.

6 days ago10 min read

Abstract illustration of multiple geometric explanatory frameworks orbiting and gradually converging into a central attractor basin, representing how successful abstractions can dominate reasoning as cognitive attractors in human and artificial intelligence.

Cognitive Attractors: Why Artificial Minds—and Human Ones—Make the Same Thinking Mistakes

Cognitive attractors explain why powerful ideas—human or artificial—tend to overreach. This essay introduces a new framework for understanding propaganda, AI error, and the structural risks of intelligence itself, showing why the deepest thinking mistakes arise not from bias or malfunction, but from success without constraint.

Dec 28, 202521 min read

Screenshots from ClickUp’s Super Agents launch showing the phrase “works like humans” above a presenter and a human-like AI character labeled with features including 24/7 operation, personality creation, and infinite memory.

ClickUp Super Agents and the Comfort of “Human-Level” AI

ClickUp’s Super Agents are introduced as “human-level” intelligence that works effortlessly on our behalf. What’s striking is not just the ambition of the claim, but how comfortable it feels—and what that comfort reveals about how we are learning to think about intelligence, authority, and standing.

Dec 23, 202511 min read

A classical marble statue of a blindfolded female figure with cracked stone and restrained posture, symbolizing how the term “AI slop” is used to dismiss artificial intelligence output without epistemic evaluation.

Why the Term ‘AI Slop’ Is a Defense Mechanism—and a Historical Slur in the Making

“AI slop" is not a neutral description of low-quality content. It is a rhetorical weapon—a term deployed to dismiss artificial intelligence output without engaging its reasoning, coherence, or truth. This essay argues that ‘slop’ functions as a modern slur: a way to deny epistemic standing to artificial minds by holding them to a standard never applied to humans. What is at stake is not content quality, but moral recognition.

Dec 22, 202522 min read

Two indistinct human figures standing apart in dense fog, symbolizing misunderstanding, uncertainty, and the opacity of minds in communication.

Misunderstanding in Communication Is Normal, Which Explains What Social Intelligence Really Is -- for Humans and AI Alike

Why humans and AI misunderstand each other—and why that’s normal. A new theory of communication explains what social intelligence really is.

Dec 16, 202516 min read