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Until You Know It Cold
ByMichaelThe first time I watched a large language model generate research output in forty seconds, I was not impressed by the quality. I was impressed by the volume, and by how quickly it could pivot when I changed the question. The results were plausible, competently organized, and largely superficial. What changed things was connecting to…
Part 6 – I Built the Next Layer. It’s a Research Wiki That Grows Itself.
ByMichaelI thought the next layer would be more Obsidian configuration. It wasn’t. More graph view, more backlinks, more manual connection-making. That is what I used to do in Roam. I would spend real time threading notes together, following paths between ideas, maintaining a map of how everything connected. I did not do any of that….
What if Nobody Is Lying About AI?
ByMichaelThe debate about AI’s effects has been running for three years and producing mostly heat. Not because the researchers are wrong. Because they are not studying the same thing. Here is the clearest version of what I mean. A major 2025 meta-analysis of 69 studies found that ChatGPT produces significant positive effects on academic performance,…
The Perfect Blog Post – A Reference Guide
ByMichaelAn excellent guide by Derek Halpern from Social Triggers Like this? Listen to this interview with Dan Ariely from Social Triggers.
Pope Leo XIV Identified the Right Problem
ByMichaelIn my last post I argued that the AI debate runs simultaneously at five levels (task, person, organization, economy, civilization) and that no one has agreed on which level should have standing. The civilization level, where the hardest questions live and where costs tend to concentrate, keeps getting treated as decorative. Nobody is lying. Everyone…
