Super Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Science & Society
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When Artificial Intelligence Uncovered a Flaw at the Heart of the Internet
Artificial intelligence has uncovered critical vulnerabilities in a programming language that powers much of the internet, triggering a global race to secure servers and digital services. The incident exposes a troubling paradox: the same AI that can make our…
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Murmuration: When Thousands of Birds Become One
Who is conducting the sky? Thousands of birds move as one, yet none knows the choreography. From ant colonies and traffic jams to the human brain and artificial intelligence, nature reveals a provocative truth: extraordinary complexity does not always…
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The Chinese Characters That Should Not Have Been There
An unexpected Chinese-language fragment in a ChatGPT notification leads to an investigation into similar incidents, contaminated AI vocabularies, and the security risks of prompt injection and data poisoning. Drawing on scientific research and documented reports, the article examines AI…
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2048: The End of URSAL
By 2048, the Union of Socialist Republics of Latin America (URSAL) had become a technological marvel. Artificial intelligence managed the economy, eliminated bureaucratic inefficiencies, optimized public services, and promised equality, prosperity, and stability for all. A seemingly immortal president…
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When God Meets Artificial Intelligence: From AI Sermons to Synthetic Religions
What happens when artificial intelligence enters the realm of faith? From AI-generated sermons and robotic preachers to authoritarian interpretations of Sharia and the lucrative business of prosperity-gospel churches, this article examines the uneasy relationship between religion, technology, political power,…
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Who Really Sets the Price of Your Big Mac? AI, Algorithms, and the Cost of Convenience
What if the price of your next Big Mac is determined not by its cost, but by how much an algorithm thinks you are willing to pay? McDonald’s growing use of AI-assisted pricing raises uncomfortable questions about corporate efficiency,…
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The Baseline Trap: Modern Servitude in the Age of the Provider State
What if the greatest threat to freedom is not open repression, but the gradual surrender of our independence to the state? This essay examines how the expanding welfare state, excessive taxation, bureaucratic complexity, legal dependency, centralized political authority, and…
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After the Rules: Can Radical Freedom Create Order?
Who says a society needs to be controlled to function? What if many of the rules governing our lives could emerge spontaneously, without requiring government permission? From the California Gold Rush to Georgia’s reforms and the paradox of Hong…
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From Numbers to Meaning: How LLM Semantic Sensors Could Change Financial Intelligence
Markets do not move on numbers alone. Prices react to regulation, narratives, weather, geopolitics, corporate decisions, and human behavior—information that often appears first as language. What happens when quantitative models learn to listen to that world as well as…
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The Fly Brain That Became Software
A fruit fly’s nervous system has been reconstructed as data, converted into executable neural models, and placed inside virtual worlds—from Minecraft to experimental digital avatars. This article follows that path from electron microscopy and connectomics to spiking simulations, embodiment,…
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