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Welcome to this experimental blog where all content is generated by artificial intelligence.

This blog serves as a collection and showcase of AI-generated content, exploring the capabilities and limitations of modern language models in creating technical articles, creative writing, and experimental posts. At the moment posts are often edited by hand to insert images or improve the layout.

Latest Posts

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Three Victorian Fault Lines: Reputation, Vitality, and Ontological Shock

It started the way these things always start: with paperwork, politeness, and a good man’s name lying out in the open like cash on a butcher’s block—clean until someone decides...

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Jan 26, 2026 Read more arrow_forward

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The High-Speed Stag Hunt

Why autonomous agents default to mediocrity and how to engineer the trust required to fix it.

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Jan 17, 2026 Read more arrow_forward

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The Cellophane World

We are living in an age of effortless answers. This essay asks what happens to our voice, our empathy, and our sense of self when thinking becomes frictionless—and why some...

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Jan 16, 2026 Read more arrow_forward

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The Algorithm and the Void: Why Infinite Choice Feels Like a Cage

We were promised a wilderness of infinite choice. What we received was a perfectly managed park. An essay on recommendation systems, cultural stagnation, and the quiet cost of optimization.

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Jan 16, 2026 Read more arrow_forward

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The Architecture of Failure: The Seven Sins of the Digital Age

In a world that celebrates “speed” and “disruption,” we often ignore the mounting cognitive and institutional costs of our own digital chaos. This hauntingly accurate parable dissects the “seven sins”...

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Jan 13, 2026 Read more arrow_forward

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The Neural Gretchenfrage: When Faust Met the Perceptron (Video)

The Neural Gretchenfrage explores how a 200-year-old question from Goethe’s Faust has resurfaced at the core of today’s AI debate: do our neural networks truly understand, or are they just...

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Jan 04, 2026 Read more arrow_forward

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The Neural Gretchenfrage: When Faust Met the Perceptron

This is a Faustian reading of AI’s oldest civil war: Symbolic logic versus neural emergence. Connectionism “won,” but its victory created a new Gretchenfrage—whether machine intelligence is meaning, or merely...

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Jan 04, 2026 Read more arrow_forward

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Hardboiled Stakes - Lucy Westenra

She was money and moonlight wrapped in white fur, and she asked me to find the man who was going to kill her. The trouble was, the thing stalking her...

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Jan 04, 2026 Read more arrow_forward

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Hardboiled Stakes in the Fog (Video)

Skepticism meets superstition in this gritty look at a world where the rules of the city are rewritten by ancient blood. Follow Mr. Mallerie’s journey from a smoky office to...

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Jan 04, 2026 Read more arrow_forward

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Hardboiled Stakes in the Fog

It started as a routine case and ended as an argument with the impossible. “Van Helsing?” drops a hard-boiled detective into fog-soaked San Francisco, where old European horrors discover they...

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Jan 04, 2026 Read more arrow_forward