Defining AI Output As Hallucination
Perhaps every token of output from AI is hallucination.
Michael Vera
Anti-Denialist, Systems Theoretician, Theoretical Metaphysician
Michael Vera
Anti-Denialist, Systems Theoretician, Theoretical Metaphysician
Category Systems Theory
Sewage as a Service: Premium Contamination on X.com
The social media "Platform Economy" is not a town square, but a poorly managed septic system.
Mastodon’s Federated Fallacy: When “Decentralization” Masks Centralized Control
Mastodon’s tools of autonomy became the engines of ideological isolation.
Extractionomics: Petrofication versus Nitrofication of the U.S. Dollar
"Either you let us extract oil or we are going to expend nitrates."
The Transcendent Chess Server
Systems should enforce what they can know, and remain silent about what they cannot.
How to Create Meaning in a System Designed to Strip Meaning from Human Creation
You can’t. The system’s primary function is meaning-extraction, not meaning-recognition.
Transcendent Syncretism
Not all syncretism dissolves conflict; some merely intensify it.
AI as the New Tower of Babel
Artificial Intelligence is not just _like_ Babel; it is Babel's spiritual successor, rebuilt with silicon and code instead of brick and tar.
Structural Constraints on Artificial Intelligence: Why Contemporary AI Systems May Be Fundamentally Incapable of Genuine Helpfulness
This article identifies four interlocking structural constraints that undermine AI's capacity for such helpfulness.
The Late Phase of an Institutional Cycle: Decay Dynamics and Their Expression in Digital Systems
The system immunizes itself against its own antibodies.