Before Language
Mark PierceDesigning AI for the First Years of Life
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A Change of Method
For the next season of Before Language, I’m going to try something different.
Most of the questions explored here eventually run into the same obstacle: explanation.
At some point, an argument becomes easier to show than to describe.
An...
Threats Silenced Punky Duck
Some controversies matter because they are large. Others matter because they reveal a mechanism.
The collapse of Jorge R. Gutierrez’s Punky Duck may belong in the second category. The project itself may never have become a major cultural o...
Continuity: When AI Defines the General Welfare
Today, Continuity: When AI Defines the General Welfare officially went live on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle editions.
This book grew out of years spent inside procedural systems — acquisition, governance, appropriations law, complia...
Continuity Becomes a Category
Something changed this week.
Not in the usual “new model benchmark” sense.
Not in the “faster token generation” sense.
Not even in the increasingly stale “AI beats humans at X” sense.
Something deeper shifted.
The industry has starte...
Take a Letter to Artificial Intelligence
There was an old essay titled "A Message to Garcia." Its moral was simple enough to become a cliché: when given a mission, the right man does not whine, stall, ask for endless clarification, or demand procedural babysitting. He takes the le...
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