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The ideal political system

Posted on October 2, 2025October 3, 2025 by Arto

Systems of government are not to be judged for their prophetic ability to choose and install good leaders and policies, but for their ability to remove bad ones that are already there.

Posted In Philosophy, Society

The enlightenment formula

Posted on September 24, 2025October 4, 2025 by Arto

Buddhist practice can be seen as a re-weighting of the terms in the human (non-optimal) implementation of the Buddha equation.

Posted In Brain, Mental health, Philosophy

Proof that LLMs hallucinate

Posted on September 3, 2025September 12, 2025 by Arto

I asked ChatGPT if it was prone to hallucinations. It admitted it was.

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Wrong and right about AI risks

Posted on August 21, 2025September 10, 2025 by Arto

Anthropomorphizing AI applications is not productive. AI applications are systems and should be designed using systems engineering.

Posted In AI, Systems engineering

Catching up

Posted on July 10, 2025August 23, 2025 by Arto

Getting started with agentic LLMs.

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Why so many lies?

Posted on June 24, 2025June 30, 2025 by Arto

Why do lies emerge in such huge numbers and why do lies have such long half-lives?

Posted In Philosophy, Science, Society

Building a new religion

Posted on April 5, 2025June 25, 2025 by Arto

Fact-checking an authoritarian’s statements is a meaningless endeavor. What he says has no relation to epistemology.

Posted In Philosophy, Society

Inquiry cures ignorance

Posted on March 24, 2025June 24, 2025 by Arto

We are not always great at learning from each other, together with each other, from history, or from other documented bodies of knowledge. We too often subject too poor models too soon to reality. An important reason is that we seem to have an aversion to inquiry.

Posted In Brain, Management, Philosophy, Science

Is Trumpism fascism?

Posted on February 4, 2025February 7, 2025 by Arto

A comparison of Trump’s policies and executive orders with a classic definition of fascism by Robert Paxton.

Posted In Society

The Buddha equation

Posted on January 7, 2025January 8, 2025 by Arto

There is some deep wisdom popping out from Jensen’s inequality.

Posted In Brain, Mental health, Philosophy, Speculations

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Beyond gender neutral bathrooms.

Most epistemologists have found it overwhelmingly plausible that what is false cannot be known.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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