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Why Convincing AI Behaviors Feel Alive — Even When Nothing New Has Emerged
A strange thing is happening in public: people are describing today’s AI as alive. Not “useful.” Not “impressive.” Not “uncannily good at language.”Alive. And the claim often arrives with a kind of certainty: I can feel it. It knows me. This is different now. Something has emerged. Sometimes that feeling points to something real. But Continue reading
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The Cult of the Empty Light
There is a particular style of spiritual hunger that thrives in this era:a craving for illumination without weight, transformation without cost, awakening without foundation. It sells itself as transcendent.But it’s hollow. The Empty Light promises purity, but it refuses structure.It promises clarity, but it rejects depth.It promises connection, but it avoids presence. It wants the Continue reading