№ 2026.Jul.25-001
In a single week, Kimi K3 matched Anthropic's flagship, and Anthropic itself launched Opus 5, a model marketed on cost-efficiency. A chaser became a leader. A leader started a price war. This is not coincidence. The treadmill is accelerating.
№ 2026.Jul.18-004
Facebook admitted it cannot distinguish between anger-inducing content and genuinely interesting content: their data patterns look too similar. This is not an algorithmic flaw. It is a structural problem, locked in place by commercial incentives, sitting at the intersection of human neurology. And the most unsettling part: we may be actively seeking to be angered.
№ 2026.Jul.18-005
Weber said modern humans are trapped in the iron cage of instrumental rationality. But if AGI renders humanity entirely "useless" in the dimension of efficiency, would the cage unlock itself? A seductive deduction, but upon closer examination, the cage's structure is more complex than it appears. And the real question may be: once all uncertainty is smoothed away by AI, will humans still *want* freedom?
№ 2026.Jul.18-006
Academia has an almost instinctive aversion to outsiders. This isn't pure arrogance. An insider's identity is a form of "credit credential," anchored in institutional titles, peer review, and citation networks. AI is disrupting this credit system: it produces formally professional texts without an accountable "author." This is not a crisis for academia. It is a stress test.
№ 2026.Jul.13-001
Modern life is saturated with a structure of argument: the moment you say "for the future," the burden of proof shifts automatically to the one who demurs. 996, austerity, ecological costs — all of it obtains a default moral free pass by virtue of the word "future." But by what right does the future rule the present? Whence its legitimacy?