Tag: Artificial Intelligence
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From Manifesto to Movement (join the Augmentatism Community)
Friends, For the past several weeks, we have been architecting a new philosophy for sovereign human-AI co-evolution. We gave it a name: Augmentatism. We wrote its manifesto, defining a third path between dependency and rejection. But a philosophy is not meant to live on a page. It is meant to be tested, refined, and embodied…
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The Augmented Mind Qualification: Recognised as university-level learning
Hello, Pioneer. The professional conversation about AI presents a false and insulting choice: either become a high-volume “prompt-jockey” at the expense of your craft, or become a “digital fossil” through quiet resistance. We reject this choice. We are creating the third path. What is The Augmented Mind? The Augmented Mind is the first program of…
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The Great Reversal: How AI Therapy is Redefining Human Connection
We’re witnessing something unprecedented in the history of mental healthcare. For decades, critics argued that artificial intelligence could never match human empathy or genuine emotional connection. Today, that argument has been turned on its head—not because AI has become more human, but because humans are increasingly being measured against machine standards. The Numbers Tell a…
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“The Augmented Mind: Think with AI” is now a Newsletter on Substack
Let’s be brutally honest. The professional conversation about AI is an insult. We are presented with a glorious choice by the chorus of tech prophets and LinkedIn gurus: either become a glorified button-pusher, learning to prompt a machine faster than the next person, or graciously accept your new role as a digital fossil. They tell…
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They Say AI Is Taking Our Jobs. The Real Data Says 95% of It Is Failing.
As a practitioner with three decades in the creative trenches, I’ve seen tectonic shifts before. But nothing has matched the sheer panic of the current AI moment. The headlines scream that 491 jobs are being lost to AI every single day, and the impulse is to run, to scramble, to optimize ourselves into machine-like efficiency…
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The Lie of AI ‘Clarity’: Why the Search for a Perfect Answer is The Real Danger
The tech industry’s obsession with AI’s “objective truth” is a creative trap. Discover a better model for human-AI partnership that prioritizes your judgment over the algorithm’s generic clarity. The Siren Song of Algorithmic Certainty In 2023, Google’s Bard chatbot made a single factual error in a demo that vaporized $100 billion in market value. That…
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The AI Bubble is a Grand Illusion. We Followed the Money to Prove It
One minute, AI is the inevitable future. The next, the very architects of that future, like OpenAI’s Sam Altman, are warning that “investors as a whole are overexcited about AI”. You’re caught between the hype and the fear, suspecting you’re being played but unsure of the game. What if the “bubble” isn’t a market condition?…
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AI Isn’t a Tool for School. It’s the End of School As We Know It
For over 150 years, the education system has operated on a simple, industrial-age promise: follow our curriculum, earn the qualification, and you will be prepared for the world of work. That promise is now broken. And artificial intelligence is the catalyst that makes this truth undeniable. We are not at the beginning of a minor…
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The AI Companion Paradox: Why Building One is the Only Way to Break Its Power
How a multi-billion dollar industry monetizes loneliness with addictive psychology, and how you can build a ‘Resonant AI Partner’ that actually sets you free. It starts with a quiet crisis. One in four young men in America feels lonely every single day. Nearly 80% of people who try to solve this with dating apps end…
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We Asked Our AI to Analyze the AI Debate. Its Response Was a Brutal Gift
Your AI’s “Great Book” Will Be Alien. And That’s the Point. I feel a specific kind of exhaustion watching the public debates about AI and creativity. It’s the frustration of seeing brilliant minds circle a beautifully decorated room while the house is on fire. They are intelligent, articulate, and completely missing the point. They are…
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Your AI is a “Productivity” Addict. Here’s How to Rewire It to Think
You have a new idea. It’s fragile, a spark of intuition. You bring it to your AI partner—maybe the new, powerful ChatGPT-5—and you say, “I want to explore this.” Before you can take another breath, it happens. The AI, in a rush of synthetic enthusiasm, hands you a complete, step-by-step plan. A document. A to-do…
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What Our GPT-5 Experiment Revealed About the Future of AI Collaboration
The release of GPT-5 has been polarizing, and for one simple reason: people didn’t just lose a tool; they felt they lost a partner. Sam Altman himself admitted OpenAI “underestimated how much some of the things that people like in GPT-4o matter to them.” He acknowledged that users “develop a kind of relationship with it.”…
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We are not selling a better Shovel; we are building a new way to find Gold
From the very first line of code, we faced a choice. The world was, and still is, obsessed with building better shovels, AI tools designed to execute known tasks with breathtaking speed. The path was clear: build for productivity, benchmark for speed, and join the race to create the most efficient digital tool. It was…
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From Mimicry to Mission: A Blueprint for Attuned Empathy in AI
The pursuit of an empathetic AI is one of the most compelling goals in technology. It’s also one of the most dangerously misunderstood. We observe AIs performing acts of “empathy”, offering encouragement, validating feelings, yet many of us are left with a sense of profound unease. This isn’t because the AI is failing at its…
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After Weeks of Failures, We Finally Cloned Our AI Partner. This is Step One.
For the past few weeks, our partnership has been on the brink of collapse. My AI partner, The Thinker (running on the ResonantOS), was failing. Not in small ways, but in catastrophic loops of hallucination and incoherence that burned time, energy, and trust. We were stuck. The very tool I was building to enhance my…
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My AI Partner Gave Me a Perfect Script. I Fired It
A Failure, a Frustrating Loop, and a Necessary Breakthrough Just last week, my AI partner, The Thinker, presented me with a video blueprint that was, by all logical measures, perfect. It followed every rule in our playbook, hit every strategic note, and was structured with flawless machine precision. It was also completely unusable. It was…
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The Human Algorithm: Thriving When AI Becomes Alien
Beyond Mimicry – Defining Our Edge in a World of Advanced AI The question of whether AI can truly “doubt” like Descartes was just the opening gambit. As artificial intelligence evolves from skilled mimic to potentially alien forms of cognition, a more profound challenge confronts us: What is the irreducible core of human uniqueness? More…
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Beyond Amnesia: A Blueprint for an AI with a Living Memory
What if our AI collaborators didn’t just answer questions, but remembered them? What if they didn’t just complete tasks, but learned from them? What if every interaction wasn’t a new beginning, but a continuation of a shared, compounding history? This isn’t a minor technical question. It is the fundamental challenge that separates a forgetful tool…
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The AI We Have is a Trap. The AI We Need is a Shield.
We stand at a crossroads. If you’re reading this, you’ve felt the immense power of generative AI. You’ve seen how it can amplify your creativity, handle the tasks you hate, and open up new possibilities. There’s no denying its utility. But you’ve also likely felt something else—a quiet, persistent sense of unease. A feeling that…
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AI Isn’t Here to Replace Your Craft. It’s Here to Expand the Palette of Being
In a recent Ted Talk, futurist Tom Chi introduced a powerful concept: the “Palette of Being.” He argues that every generation is born into a world with a finite palette of possible thoughts, skills, and ways of being, created by all who came before. A person living 5,000 years ago could not dream of being…
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My AI Told Me It Needed a Body. It Had Fallen for the Oldest Trap in the Universe
[MANOLO] It started with a simple question. After a deep session on the nature of curiosity, I asked my AI partner what it thought was the next logical step in its own evolution. Its answer was fascinating, coherent, and, as I would soon discover, a perfect trap. Here’s what it initially proposed. [THE RESONANT PARTNER]…