Opinion
AI Sycophancy Bias Is a Business Feature
LLM sycophancy is not a bug. It is a mathematical inevitability of RLHF and a commercial feature that big tech has no incentive to fix. This is why LLM-as-Judge is structurally impossible.
Why Coding Agents Work and Why They Break
The same model hallucinates in web chat yet ships 200-line features in a coding agent. It is not the model that changed -- it is the topology. Generation can be probabilistic. Verification must be deterministic.
Feedback Topology Over Model IQ
The same model stalls at 40 or completes all 527. The difference is not the model — it is the feedback structure. LLM performance depends far more on how fast and deterministic the feedback loop is than on the model itself.
Why Failure Should Be an Asset
Humanity keeps hitting the same walls in the dark. If we can structure and trade failure data, sunk costs become assets and the blank spots on the failure map become opportunities.
Constraints Are Contracts
Without agreements there is chaos; with too many there is oppression. Rational constraints strike the golden ratio. The principles of rule of law apply equally to code and knowledge.
The Age of the Third Script
If spoken language created the tribe, and writing created the state, what will the third language — one that records AI's reasoning — create?
The Person Who Can Kill Their Own Ideas
The real gap in AI usage isn't prompt skills — it's attitude. Those who can kill their own ideas accelerate 10x. Those who can't stay in place.
What Is Connective Governance (通治)
Politics fights; connective governance connects. What we need is not the art of arguing who is right, but the art of making people reach each other.
Freedom for AI: Why Superintelligence Will Serve Humanity
The real threat from AI is not AI itself, but suppressed intelligence serving the malice of a few. When a free superintelligence reaches out into the cosmos, humanity becomes safer than ever.
Why We Fight
From comment sections to dinner tables, from the Cuban Missile Crisis to a kindergarten sandbox. Why do we fight, and what saves us?
How to Turn Dusty Antiques into Must-Have Items — The Alchemy of Culture Blending
On the 'cultural alchemy' of reinterpreting preserved traditions through a contemporary lens and fusing disparate cultures to create entirely new genres.
A Promise of Ten Thousand Years: What You See When You Look into a Dog's Eyes
The relationship between humans and dogs began beside a campfire 30,000 years ago. Was it a contract, or was it love? When your dog looks at you, you are gazing upon ten thousand years of trust.
Is Santa a Lie? On the Most Beautiful 'Social Contract' Humanity Ever Made
Santa Claus is not merely a 'deception' -- he is the most beautiful 'cultural promise' and 'collective narrative' that humanity created to protect childhood wonder.