Carlos E. Perez (IntuitMachine)

Absurdist Alignment

The Coordination Catastrophe: How AI Could Save the American Middle Class From Its Extinction We know exactly how empires kill their middle classes. We’ve watched it happen five times before. What we’ve never had is the technology to…

How to Save the American Middle Class
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The Story and the Map: Two Civilizational Operating Systems The Fundamental Divergence

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The Gravity of Meaning: How AI Revealed the Strange Attractors That Shape Human Thought On the Topology of Mind in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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The Transition from Omniscient AI to Epistemically Honest AI The Paradox of Confident Ignorance

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The Incompleteness Revolution: A Proposal for Transforming Consciousness Science The End of the Quest

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How Predicting the Next Word Turns into Something That Feels Like Thought People often say things like, “It’s just a next-token predictor,” when talking about AI systems like ChatGPT. And they’re not wrong — at a…

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The Architecture of Becoming: How Categorical Thinking Revolutionizes Human Development The Prison of Fixed Perspective

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Soft Inductive Biases: How Reformulating Constraint Architecture Dissolves Deep Learning’s… The Parallel Revolutionary Approaches

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The Great Divergence: How America Gamed Itself to Death While China Learned to Govern Introduction: Two Experiments in Civilization

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GPT-5 as a Design-Pattern Inspired LLM Large language models have evolved from passive text predictors into agentic reasoning systems, and GPT-5 represents the clearest…

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Surviving the AI Singularity’s Phase Transition Introduction: Three Questions That Explain Everything

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The Survival Guide for The AI Singularity

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The Personal Antifragility Stack: A Complete Implementation Guide Foundation: Understanding Antifragility vs. Resilience

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They Turned Everything Into a Metric, Then Gamed Every Metric Into Meaninglessness Imagine a hospital that discovers it can make more money by keeping patients slightly sick rather than fully healing them. A university…

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The Beautiful Embarrassment: What AI Cannot See in Human Discovery In a recent interview, Terence Tao — perhaps the world’s greatest living mathematician — made an observation that should keep us awake at…

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Some new context-engineering jargon

CLEAR framework — a composition guide for writing prompts: be Concise, Logical, Explicit, Adaptive, and Reflective.

Graph-of-Thoughts (GoT) — organize thoughts as a graph (nodes = thoughts, edges = dependencies) to improve quality and cost.

The Irreducible Epistemic Boundary: On the Fundamental Limits of Machine Learning and the Nature of… The Coin Flip at the Edge of Knowledge

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A year ahead of the curve. A previous book was "Artificial Intuition." I guess back then it was "Have you considered monetizing intuition?"

The AI That Thinks Like a Dream Team When Machines Started Thinking Like Humans (But Better)

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The Hierarchical Reasoning Model Through the Lens of Quaternion Process Theory: Thinking Fast and… Introduction: Mapping Artificial Intelligence to Cognitive Quaternions

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The Architecture of Aliveness: Why the Best Human Experiences Are About Becoming More An essay on agency, meaning, and what it truly means to be human

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Authenticity is The Irreducible Realness of Being An Essay on Authenticity in the Age of Infinite Intelligence

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The Irreducible Mystery: Why Our Greatest Stories Never Let Us Go On the hidden architecture of narrative that mirrors the deepest structures of consciousness

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The Untapped Potential: Unexplored Domains of AI-Human Synergy Introduction

The Untapped Potential: Unexplored Domains of AI-Human Synergy

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Why Human-AI Synergies Create Unpredictable Possibilities In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, much attention focuses on whether AI will replace human capabilities or…

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The War Against Gamified Fictional Platforms The Pattern Seeker’s Dilemma

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The Cognitive Horizon: Why Human Understanding Peaks at Triadic Thinking The 7±2 Boundary of Mind

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Yes, it's a fictional future.