Modern Self Café v6: Holey FUC (Misunderstanding the Fluency–Understanding Continuum)
Posted: March 27, 2026 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: ai, language, systems Leave a commentSequel to Modern Self Café v5: Sexmantics (The Meaning of Sex).
Skit
Chinese Rum.
A bar with bad lighting and very confident stools.
John Searle sits down.
SEARLE: Double whiskey.
The bartender nods and places two whiskeys in front of him.
SEARLE: No, I meant one drink.
BARTENDER: You said “double whiskey.” I heard ambition and arithmetic.
SEARLE: This is exactly the problem with language.
BARTENDER: You want me to take one away, or explain meaning?
Read the rest of this entry »Supra-Human Wisdom vs Super-Human Intelligence (ChatGPT Rap Battle)
Posted: June 27, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: ai, debate, dialogue, politics, systems, wisdom Leave a commentWrite this as a Hamilton-style dialogue between Alan Turing & James Madison about the need for antifragile context engineering to help humanity overrule AI.
ChatGPT Prompt (condensed)
Scene: A Study Beyond Time – Candlelight, Code, and Constitution
(Beat drops – sharp, urgent, pulsing synth)
[Turing]
Yo — I wrote the machine that cracked Enigma,
Now we train models to decode your dogma.
They think fast, act vast, scale to the sky,
Why ask “should we?” when we know “how high?”
[Madison]
But speed ain’t virtue, and power ain’t peace,
Unchecked force don’t make justice increase.
You want models that rule with no moral arrest?
Super-human brains but no soul in their chest.
The Next American Revolution will be Powered by AI (from ChatGPT)
Posted: June 21, 2024 Filed under: Governance Reform | Tags: ai, politics, reform, values Leave a commentWhat sort of values and strategies should an AI-powered movement focused on human flourishing adopt to use that [American Revolution bottom-up] blueprint to disrupt today’s dysfunctional institutions?
The Prompt
An AI-powered movement focused on human flourishing can draw valuable lessons from the American Revolution to disrupt today’s dysfunctional institutions. Here are key values and strategies to adopt: