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When Security Vendors No Longer Own the Intelligence
The Challenger Becomes the Institution Only a few years ago, the relationship between OpenAI and Anthropic appeared relatively easy to describe. OpenAI was the…
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Liberalism and Its Illiberal Shadow
When a Sound Idea Acquires a Bad Reputation Liberalism should not be difficult to defend. Its basic commitments are now woven into the moral…
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The Courage That Comes from Above
The Fathers Who Came Forward My wife and I attended Sunday Mass on Father’s Day. Near the conclusion of the celebration, all the fathers…
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When the Christian Disappears
The Self That Survives Its Own Surrender A rich man once approached Jesus and asked what he still lacked. He had obeyed the commandments…
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From Self-Help to Selfless Help
The Ancient Attraction of Numbered Wisdom Modern readers are surrounded by numbered advice. Five habits for happiness, six principles for success, seven ways to…
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The Text and the World
When Conversion Became Conversation Not long ago, converting a Markdown file into a Word document was primarily a technical task. People recommended Pandoc, command-line…
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The Language at a Good Distance
The Imperfect Language That Became a Common Medium English is an unusual candidate for a global language. Its spelling often refuses to cooperate with…
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When a Model Becomes a Border
AI Safety, National Power, and the Suspension of Fable 5 and Mythos 5 A Service Interruption That Was Not Merely Technical For the past…
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When Process Replaces Purpose
A Document Covered in Comments A document may take only a few hours to write and several weeks to approve. This is so common…
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The Question Behind the Question
Remembering Dr. Lee, Kant, and the Attitude of Philosophizing A Teacher Who Remains in the Question The passing of a teacher often makes us…
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Write, Think Later
The Line That Stayed There are lines from movies that stay with us longer than the plot itself. I do not remember every detail…
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The Two Stages of Writing
Before the Document Long before I owned a computer, writing began on paper. Not good paper, either. More often it was a yellow pad,…
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Knowing Is Not Becoming
When Knowledge Disappoints Us There are moments when knowledge disappoints us, not because knowledge itself has failed, but because we expected more from it…
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The Visible Machine
The Philosophy Hidden in an Operating System It is surprising how often meaningful ideas appear in unexpected places. We expect philosophy to emerge from…
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The View from Trinity Sunday
The Sunday That Changes the View This year’s Trinity Sunday felt different to me. Every year, the Church celebrates the great events of salvation…
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The Art of Experiencing Life
The Friends We Borrow Recently, I came across an article discussing people who reach their sixties with very few close friends. The article challenged…
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Ten Times More Human
The Library That No One Can Finish When I was younger, I sometimes stood in a library or bookstore and felt a strange mixture…
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The Ghost of Paper
When a Software Migration Reveals a Deeper Confusion I recently heard that some Japanese government sectors are trying to move their documents from Ichitaro…
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Is It Beautiful?
The Right Wrong Question About Language English became the world’s default language by accident. Germanic roots, a Norman French overlay, the Great Vowel Shift,…
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The Digital Architecture of Freedom
The Architecture of the Digital Cage The transition from physical assets to digital services was sold as a liberation narrative. In the early days…