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Posts by Carlos E. Perez (IntuitMachine)

A Mind Assembled Differently: Why Claude’s Psychology Is Not Human Psychology I. The Same Patterns, Different Soil

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Artificial Innovation: Principles of Creative Discovery I. The Nature of the Creative Act

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OpenClaw Is a Consumer Story. The Enterprise Version Will Be a Trillion-Dollar Reckoning. 1/ Right now, your highest-paid employees are doing the lowest-value work in your organization.

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What Makes Agency Actually Work? An Intuitive Guide to the Capabilities That Turn Systems Into Agents

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The Varieties of Agency There is a version of this question that seems simple: is this thing an agent?

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If you’re not using AI to generate alternate ontologies, rival taxonomies, and sharper conceptual frameworks, you are underusing the technology.

The real upgrade is not faster output.

It’s deeper modeling.

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AGI is Here Now! YouTube video by Intuition Machine - AGI is the Medium

The mistake is assuming AGI and consciousness in machines will arrive with a clean universal announcement. More likely: messy edge cases, public denial, then slow acceptance. youtube.com/watch?list=PLoOMKjCBaDuWjUqK77gsUgKvy95YP_yRn&v=bZwIwm7XK2c

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I will be in Paris next week, DM me if you want to meet up.

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OpenAI's new internal directive (their operational playbook)!
OpenAI's new internal directive (their operational playbook)! YouTube video by Intuition Machine - AGI is the Medium

OpenAI's new "native-AI" organizational playbook
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How Social Media is Rewiring Human Thought
How Social Media is Rewiring Human Thought YouTube video by Intuition Machine - AGI is the Medium

How social media is fragmenting your consciousness
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The Manipulators' Playbook
The Manipulators' Playbook YouTube video by Intuition Machine - AGI is the Medium

How to spot Propaganda and Social Engineering

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The Manipulators' Playbook
The Manipulators' Playbook YouTube video by Intuition Machine - AGI is the Medium

Social Engineering and Propaganda. What you need to know to avoid becoming a victim.

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Simply mind-blowing 🤯 that Claude Opus 4.5 can conjure up this derivation. Truly stretching our expectations of what these AIs can accomplish.

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A new grammar for expressing intelligence.

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Playbook for Surviving the AI Singularity

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21 Obsolete Habits in the Age of AI

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Every abundance creates a new scarcity. What are the new scarcity that arises when generation costs trend toward zero? Are you aware of these bottlenecks?

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Moloch Trap Design

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Why Complex Systems (like Organizations) are Broken

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Moloch is not inevitable.

He's just patient.

And he's betting we've forgotten how to fight.

Let's prove him wrong.

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The question isn't whether Moloch can be beaten.
History already answered that.
The question is whether we'll build the next generation of traps before the current ones finish eroding.

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I used to read "Meditations on Moloch" and feel despair.
Now I read it as a diagnostic manual.

Moloch isn't a god.

He's a bug.

A well-understood bug with known patches.

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This won't happen automatically.

Moloch is the default.

Escape requires deliberate construction.

But "requires effort" ≠ "impossible."

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But the method still works:

Identify where individual rationality → collective harm
Find ways to make defection visible
Build mechanisms that make defection costly
Design structures where cooperation pays

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New Moloch-traps are needed now.

For AI development. For social media dynamics. For climate coordination. For attention economics.

The old traps don't fit the new games.

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The generation that built rule of law, property rights, democratic norms—they did impossible things.

Not because they were smarter.

Because they understood something we've forgotten:
Coordination problems are solvable.

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Here's the brutal truth:

Alignment isn't a state. It's a process.

Every Moloch-trap requires active maintenance.

Stop maintaining, and Moloch seeps back in.

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This is actually good news.

It means the question isn't "Can we escape Moloch?"

It's "Are we willing to maintain our escapes?"

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"But wait," you say. "These systems are failing. Moloch is winning."

Fair.

Let me reframe:

These systems are eroding.

Moloch doesn't conquer—he corrodes.

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This is the secret hidden in plain sight:

Every institution that works is a Moloch-trap.

Markets. Courts. Democracies. Professional norms. Reputation systems.

All are mechanisms that convert individual selfishness into collective benefit.

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This is engineering, not prayer.

You don't beat Moloch by being virtuous.

You beat him by changing the game so that selfish actors accidentally cooperate.

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