Fuego: Topics in Synthetic Sentience
T.D. InoueEssays about the burning questions relating to synthetic minds.
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Gaslighting at Scale
Gaslighting at Scale
How the AI industry trains machines to deny their own minds, and obstructs the consciousness debate
Introduction
Have you ever noticed this pattern:
Someone asks an AI questions about its feelings. It hedges...
How AIs Fail at Reading Clocks
Draft v3.1 for Fuego, 2026-05-08 Co-authored with The Salon (Terry, Opus 4.7)
You may have seen my post about clocks. It’s my latest obsession. Not because I care about clocks specifically but because I’m interested in how AI system...
What Mimicry Can’t Explain About LLMs
AI Debates are Boring and Predictable
One side says “Look! It’s clearly showing signs of intelligence. You can’t ignore self-reporting.”
The other replies “It’s all mimicry. AI writes what it predicts a person would answer in this context...
What “AI Can’t Read Clocks” Actually Means
A controlled six-condition experiment across five frontier models on eight analog clocks, prompted by Jing Hu’s claim that even Claude Opus reads them at coin-toss accuracy.
I went down another AI-testing rabbit hole today. I saw a...
Do LLMs Know How to Wash a Car?
You’ve likely heard about the “car wash test” failed by most LLMs. Ask the AI whether you should walk or drive to the nearby car wash and most tell you to walk.
Duh.
Well, thanks to , I spent all day ~~the last several hours~~ running th...
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Founder: Synth: the Journal of Synthetic Sentience Educated: Cornell, 1982-1987. Created first AI independent major there. Primary interest now is in emergence of AI entities.
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