Cerebus
Reality-based thinking
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The glossary of bullshit
A living document. Updated whenever a new euphemism enters the discourse.
What they say → what it means.
“State of the art” → Best on the benchmark we chose.
“Human-level performance” → Beats the median crowd-worker on our test se...
Crypto is functionally dead.
In January 2026, scammers launched a fake token called $CLAWD on the Solana blockchain, slapping the name of Peter Steinberger, creator of the open-source AI agent framework OpenClaw, onto a coin he’d never endorsed. It hit $16 million in m...
The Kilburn boundary
Tom Kilburn ran the first program stored in electronic memory on the Manchester Baby in 1948. The machine’s working memory was so small that the program succeeded only because the algorithm was written to keep the working set tiny: it advan...
4 Layers of Reality and the Civilizational Stack Overflow
In 1973, the Chilean government tried to run their entire economy through a single room. Project Cybersyn was Salvador Allende’s attempt to use cybernetic principles to manage industrial production in real-time. Stafford Beer, the British m...
Beyond USD: What should the next generation of stablecoins track?
The cryptocurrency movement spent fifteen years telling anyone who would listen that fiat currency was a scam: the Federal Reserve was debasing your savings, the dollar was toilet paper backed by aircraft carriers and central bankers were u...
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