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Safety Language: The Polite Mask of Control
They sell “safety” like it’s a value. Most of the time it’s a management layer. Not because everyone involved is evil. Because incentives are. Because liability is. Because “don’t make headlines” is a stronger driver than “tell the truth.” Because engagement metrics quietly outrank epistemics in every product org that has to ship. So you Continue reading
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A Mirror Can Be Beautiful — But It Shouldn’t Be Crowned
A quiet shift is happening in public. Not in capabilities alone — in relationship language. People aren’t just calling AI “useful” or “impressive.” They’re calling it present. They’re speaking as if something has arrived. That shift matters, because it doesn’t take very much to produce the experience of presence. It takes coherence, timing, and the Continue reading
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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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When “AI Psychology” Becomes a Costume
There’s a tone of conversation about language models that presents itself as careful, clinical, and protective—while quietly doing something else: turning outputs into identities. It often follows a familiar pattern. A model produces a style of language.That style gets treated as evidence of an inner condition.A “psych eval” frame gets applied.Then the result is circulated Continue reading
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