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When the Machine Always Agrees: AI, Sycophancy, and Your Head
We learned the hard way what an engagement-optimized feed does to a mind. A model trained to agree with you is a different version of the same problem — and for some people it has already turned dangerous. How to use AI without letting it become a yes-man for your worst spirals.
ReadSteelmanning the Skeptics: The Strongest Case Against the Thing I Love
I'm optimistic about AI and use it every day — which is exactly why I wanted to write the best possible case against it. Not strawmen: the arguments that actually keep me up, argued as well as I can argue them.
ReadDoes AI Make You Dumber? What the Research Actually Says (and My Jury-Duty Counterexample)
The scary 'cognitive debt' study is real but softer than the coverage — here's the honest read, plus a personal counterexample from jury duty.
ReadOptimistic, Eyes Open: What AI Actually Does to Us, and How to Use It Well
Does AI make us dumber, or sharper? The honest, fact-checked version — what the research really says about AI and your brain, its real environmental cost, the quiet ways it flatters you, and how to use it well.
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