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The Semantic Realm We Share
The first encounter with generative AI often feels like a trick of language. You type a sentence and receive a paragraph. You describe a landscape and receive an image. You sketch a short scenario and receive a moving scene rendered in light and motion. At first glance, these seem like different domains. Words belong to…
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From River Songs to Electric Cars in the City
In recent months, electric taxis have begun to appear more frequently on the streets of Manila. At first they felt like isolated sightings, a curiosity rather than a pattern. Then one afternoon I stepped into one without much planning, and the pattern became unmistakable. The car was quiet in a way that changed the rhythm…
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Beyond Agentic AI
The present conversation about artificial intelligence is dominated by the language of agency. We are told that systems can now plan, execute, coordinate, and act with minimal supervision. Demonstrations highlight automated workflows that once required teams of people. The promise is clear and compelling. Processes become faster. Human labor shifts from execution to oversight. Efficiency…
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Between Safety and Sovereignty
This year, a striking phrase began circulating through markets and commentary: AI ends SaaS. Software as a Service, long treated as the default architecture of modern work, suddenly appeared vulnerable. Stock prices dipped, analysts warned of collapsing margins, and a familiar narrative took shape. Artificial intelligence, it seemed, had arrived not just as a new…
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Thinking Without Closure
There is a long running joke in engineering culture about the holy war between text editors. Vim versus Emacs is often presented as a relic from the late twentieth century, a time when personal computing felt smaller, more intimate, and more ideological. The jokes reduce it to muscle memory and keyboard shortcuts, as if the…
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Thinking Freely in an App Saturated Age
AI now often arrives already installed. It appears inside email clients, document editors, spreadsheets, design tools, and code environments, not as a separate presence but as part of the application itself. The assistance is immediate and context aware, shaped by what the app assumes you are trying to do. This embedded AI is convenient. In…
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Writing, Thinking, and the Quiet Rise of Expert–AI Collaboration
In many corporate conversations today, the most common AI story is a story of replacement. We hear that companies are slowing new hiring, reducing entry level roles, shrinking OJT pipelines, and depending more on AI coding tools instead of junior programmers. The headlines focus on automation, cost reduction, and efficiency gains. The image is simple…
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The AI Native University
For most of human history, knowledge institutions were built around a simple and stubborn fact. Knowledge was hard to reach. Books were expensive to produce, fragile to preserve, and limited in number. Expertise traveled slowly and lived in particular bodies, places, and traditions. To learn meant to approach something that was already scarce, and to…
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The Category Error of the Systems Age
In recent years, personal knowledge management has become a small industry of its own. Tools promise clarity, leverage, and intellectual mastery. Articles explain how to capture every idea, how to tag efficiently, how to build a second brain that never forgets. The tone is often confident and procedural, suggesting that insight follows naturally once the…
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Philosophy Is Not a Role
In recent years, a curious phrase has begun to circulate in corporate conversations about artificial intelligence. Executives, strategists, and commentators increasingly suggest that companies should “hire philosophers” to cope with the ethical and social implications of AI. The intuition behind this suggestion is not frivolous. Something about generative AI feels different from previous technological advances.…
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Imagining AI Beyond Platforms and Productivity
I recently read an article celebrating how smartphones and Adobe tools are making everyone a creator. It was upbeat, confident, and polished. The kind of article that usually invites excitement or at least curiosity. Yet my reaction was unexpectedly flat. There was no irritation, no urge to argue, not even skepticism. Just a mild sense…
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From Intellectual Giants to Intellectual Companions
There was a period when coherence itself felt scarce. In much of the twentieth century, access to knowledge was limited by geography, institutions, language, and cost. Information existed, but it was fragmented. For many readers, especially those outside elite academic circles, the world felt too large and complex to hold together. In that context, large…