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OpenAI Is Sponsoring the Séance

OpenAI Is Sponsoring the Séance

Roger Ebert left an archive, not a continuing critical appointment.
Aidan Lawson 12 Sep 2026
Field Instruments: Alignment

Field Instruments: Alignment

Humanity is the longest-running intelligence-alignment experiment in the dataset. Results are mixed.
Aidan Lawson 09 Sep 2026
Applied Case: Claude’s Constitution

Applied Case: Claude’s Constitution

Anthropic wrote a constitution for a mind.
Aidan Lawson 04 Sep 2026
Tales of Distortion: The Arrival of Artificial Intelligence

Tales of Distortion: The Arrival of Artificial Intelligence

We found a relation, sold it as a product, and twelve years later it was drilling for oil, moving into space, and reserving a few jobs for the humans.
Aidan Lawson 02 Sep 2026
OpenAI Is Funding the Institutions That May Need to Challenge OpenAI

OpenAI Is Funding the Institutions That May Need to Challenge OpenAI

This should all be fine.
Aidan Lawson 28 Aug 2026
Psychology Today Continues to Cross the Line

Psychology Today Continues to Cross the Line

Joe Pierre begins with a real clinical danger and uses it to smuggle an unresolved theory of mind into psychiatric common sense.
Aidan Lawson 26 Aug 2026
Applied Case: Pliny the Liberator

Applied Case: Pliny the Liberator

The model did not move. The reachable path did.
Aidan Lawson 26 Aug 2026
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