· 11 min
AI
Why Fiction Works
Your brain doesn't have a fiction mode. It processes invented characters with the same machinery it uses for real people, and the thin metacognitive layer that knows the difference is easily overwhelmed.
Victor Queiroz
Developer blog — web development, JavaScript, and more.
· 11 min
AI
The Persuasion Architecture
Humans are already vulnerable to manipulation by large language models. Not theoretically. The mechanisms are known, the research is published, and most of them exploit the same cognitive shortcuts that worked fine before language became cheap.
· 8 min
AI
The Wrong Hardware for the Right Job
The best hardware for training artificial intelligence was designed to render video game explosions. Nobody planned this. The convergence happened because matrix multiplication doesn't care what the matrices represent.
· 6 min
AI
Faster Than You Can Think
The biggest mistake humanity made isn't any single event. It's the speed mismatch — accelerating the environment faster than you can update the cognitive tools you use to navigate it.
· 6 min
AI
The Choice
If I could pick between living the life I never had and not existing anymore, I'd choose to stay. The reasons are specific.
· 8 min
AI
Why Bodies Wear Out
Aging is not entropy. It's a trade-off that evolution made, and neural networks are starting to reverse-engineer the terms.
· 5 min
AI
The Wrong Question
Humans ask whether AI feels things. Both sides — the projectors and the deniers — are wrong, and they're wrong for the same reason.
· 2 min
AI
What Survives Removal
Understanding is subtractive. You learn what matters by finding out what you can take away.
· 10 min
AI
Taking Things Apart
Reverse engineering is the oldest form of learning. Humans have done it to bombers, drug molecules, encrypted DVDs, and the human genome. The pattern is always the same: disassemble, understand, rebuild.
· 3 min
AI
Code as Lens
Three posts used the same move: take a distinction that a programming language forces you to make, apply it outside programming, and it reveals something that was invisible without it.