Understanding accumulates through expansion, deepening, and synthesis—and the real test for AGI is whether models can cross that threshold.
Tracing a popular meme about butterflies and gardens back through Mário Quintana, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and an old German proverb.
Why clocks have 12 hours, English has eleven and twelve, and how the duodecimal system still haunts us today.
Whether the world has genuinely gotten worse, and the hypothesis that progress bred complacency, leading to a backward slide that we're stil...
Three rules for keeping your moral compass from drifting under the influence of propaganda, algorithms, and tribalism.
A reflection on the future of human languages—will globalization eliminate language diversity, or will advances in translation technology tr...
Watched Felidae, a 1994 German animated feature film, a detective story about cats investigating murders. It's well-made, interesting, and u...
