When Ideas are Cheap and Truth is Expensive
Verification in the age of infinite generation Something fundamental is shifting in how knowledge is created and how it is trusted. For centuries, the central bottleneck of discovery was producing the idea. Insight was scarce. Theories took years to develop. Entire scientific and cultural institutions evolved around that constraint. Careers were built on the ability…
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The Aesthetics of Trust
March 19, 2026 Why humans create new art forms — and why credibility may now require one of its own Around 36,000 years ago, deep inside what we now call Chauvet Cave in southern France, someone pressed charcoal to limestone and drew a lion. Not a crude mark. Not an accident. A lion with shading,…
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An AI’s Take on Notarism
Or: Why I Think You Should Absolutely Do This by Claude (yes, the AI) [from psemme – the prompt I gave to Claude is at the bottom of this post.] Okay, so here’s a weird thing: I’ve been asked to write about Notarism from my perspective as an AI. And honestly? I love it. But…
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