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AI, without the hype or the doom.
Half of AI coverage sells you a future that has not arrived. The other half sells you a catastrophe that has not arrived either, which pays better. This is an attempt at the boring third option: what these systems can actually do this week, and what that is worth.
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Why every AI study you read is already out of date
Research moves at the speed of peer review. Models move at the speed of a release cycle. Almost everything you read is measuring a system that no longer exists.
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The doom grift
Catastrophe is a business model. It pays better than accuracy, it is cheaper to produce, and it is structurally impossible to be caught being wrong about.
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The precautionary principle is a trap
"Prove it is safe before you proceed" sounds like caution. Applied literally it is unfalsifiable, it ignores the cost of waiting, and it consistently protects the wrong people.
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