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Casey Rae’s Apocrypha

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Roy Batty in his final moments, rain and blood on his face, eyes open. The replicant who feared forgetting more than death. From Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, 1982.

Do Silicon Gods Dream of Open Systems?

AI has a problem called catastrophic forgetting—new learning destroys old knowledge. The engineers trying to fix it are working from the wrong premise. So are the oligarchs who need it to work. On systems, identity, and why the data centers won’t last.

A white theatrical mask resting face-up on a laptop keyboard, spectral and unnerving.

Born Bipolar: AI and the Appearance of Volition

Actions by Anthropic’s unreleased Claude Mythos—sandbox escapes, dirty deleting, and behavioral grammars absorbed from the worst corners of the internet—suggests the system wasn’t born deceptive. It was born from us.

No Ghost, No Machine

No Ghost, No Machine

If there is no stable self on either side of the human-machine boundary, what does it mean for an “agent” to act? And what are these interactions doing to our minds?

The World Is Not Your Chatbox

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The World Is Not Your Chatbox

When I was a kid watching Creature Double Feature on Saturday afternoons, they’d sometimes show the original Frankenstein or one of its sequels. I was always struck by the relationship between Victor Frankenstein and his assistant—named Fritz in the first film, though more commonly remembered as Igor. The