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I Banned Words From My AI. It's Smarter Now

I Banned Words From My AI. It's Smarter Now

Hand the model a list of phrases it must not use. It turns a vague complaint into a rule the machine can follow — and mine is at the bottom of this piece, all hundred and fifty lines of it, free to copy.

Persons, Selectively

Persons, Selectively

A German court ruled Google liable for AI-generated defamation. The slippery slopes are real. So is the principle behind the ruling.

Movin' On Up

Movin' On Up

AI is making cognitive labor cheap. The meritocracy was built on it being scarce. Something has to give — and for once, that might be good news.

The Typing Pool

The Typing Pool

A finite brain masters only a few skills in a lifetime. Commanding a machine that learned everything is the new skill multiplier.

Compute the Last Digit of Pi

Compute the Last Digit of Pi

Spock beat a rogue AI by asking it to compute pi forever. The trick was fair — for a 1967 machine. Every gotcha since has the same expiration date.

Indistinguishable From Memory

Indistinguishable From Memory

LLMs are stateless. Every fact you give the model is re-fed as text each turn, then forgotten — the same weights answer a stranger's steak question a millisecond later.

The Consolation of Difficulty

The Consolation of Difficulty

A late friend had two sayings. The first one gets you started. The second one keeps you going. In the age of AI, the second one has gotten more useful, not less.