Democracy: The Worst Form of Government, and Other Bedtime Stories Democracy, we’re told, is the least bad option. Cue Churchill’s endlessly recycled quip, wheeled out like a dusty party trick whenever the system’s failures become too obvious to ignore. But what i…

Popper warned us. Arrow proved it. Churchill quipped about it. Democracy isn’t wisdom in action; it’s chaos with ballots.

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If You Don’t Understand How Language Works, You Should Lose Your Licence to Comment on LLMs Bad takes about AI usually reveal more about their author’s ignorance of language than about machines. If you don’t understand semiotics, context, and the messy contingency of words, you’ve lost yo…

Hot take patrol: if you don’t understand how language works, you’re not qualified to critique LLMs. The licence to comment has conditions.

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