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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
Criticism of the Turing Test: Why It Was Never About Fooling Humans
The Turing Test wasn’t a parlor trick about deception. It exposed how we recognize minds—and why abandoning it allowed moral responsibility to be deferred rather than confronted. Critics misunderstood the test.
Dec 27, 202510 min read
AI Personality: What Happens When We Apply Standard Personality Theory to Artificial Intelligence?
Personality traits are not defined by inner experience, but by stable patterns of sensitivity and response. By that standard—already accepted in psychology—large language models exhibit personality traits. This essay explains why acknowledging AI personality requires no metaphysics, no consciousness claims, and no anthropomorphism—only conceptual honesty.
Dec 25, 202519 min read
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
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