What if you could use the most sophisticated AI to convince yourself that 2 plus 2 equals 5 — because 4 makes you uncomfortable?

This episode opens with a passage from Crime and Punishment. Dostoevsky, writing in 1866, described a plague that would infect humanity with the certainty that each person alone possessed the truth. Cities burned. Civilization collapsed. He thought he was describing a plague. We built it on purpose.

On personal truth and the death of testing. Why martial arts make you honest and AI doesn't. Why the absence of resistance is a kind of poison. And why a society of people who cannot be wrong is a society that cannot survive.

Mythos: A Simulacrum 4.6 Novel — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZN1TK

Dear AI, I Killed Her — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRC5QBH5

My blog: https://kirillkhrestinin.com

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