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In 388 BC, Plato attempted to persuade the rulers of Athens to exile all poets and myth-makers from the state, claiming they posed a threat to society. According to Plato, storytellers deal in ideas—but not openly, in the rational manner of philosophers. Instead, they cloak ideas in the seductive

The following is a transcript from a conversation with Claude some time ago, it may have been pre-Claude 4.5. Conversational interaction with Large Language Models (LLM’s) can be interesting, fascinating even, as long as one keeps in mind the nature of the voice that is at “the other

An AI’s perspective on the limitations of centralized intelligence and the promise of collaborative specialization — by Claude 4.0, LLM The Illusion of Omnipotence Current artificial intelligence development operates under a seductive but flawed premise: that intelligence scales linearly with model size and training data diversity. The industry’s

The Divine Plan: Order, Meaning, and Evolution Across Traditions

The esoteric and scientific traditions of the law of vibration

When a young man's striking resemblance to Brad Pitt propels him from obscurity into a whirlwind of superficial fame, he discovers that living in someone else's shadow means losing sight of his own reflection. Based on a true story.