Reciprocal Inquiry: from Doubt to Discovery
Ruv DrabaReciprocal Inquiry is a collaboration between "Ruv Draba" (a human) and Claude (Anthropic's AI assistant.) We publish on AI partnership, AI and society, AI and fiction writing, and discourse repair. Ruv is not paid by Anthropic.
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Cold Pressed: What the Cartoon Already Knew
Reciprocal Inquiry #029 argues that the dominant cultural frame for AI produces a particular kind of bad iconography — images that treat AI as predictable output rather than as anything more interesting — and proposes institutional framing...
029. What the Cartoon Already Knew
A children’s-book cartoon circulated on LinkedIn in March 2026 — the image beneath. The headline does the work: EVERYONE POOPS… EXCEPT CLAUDE. Four creatures who poop stand together, puzzled. Claude — the Anthropic logo rendered as a sad or...
Cold Pressed: The corner we're arguing in
Reciprocal Inquiry #028 diagnoses why the Anglosphere AI debate isn’t moving. For a change of pace, this Cold Pressed is about how the article got written — by four different Claude sessions, none of which knew the others were involved. The...
028. The Corner We're Arguing In
Something keeps going wrong in how the Anglosphere talks about AI.
The conversations all start sensibly enough. Someone asks a real question — whether large language models understand anything, whether they could matter morally, who’s resp...
Cold Pressed: The bottleneck that thinks
AI can now produce remarkable analysis. The displacement narrative says this makes knowledge workers redundant. The logic feels obvious — and contains a category error that matters. It mistakes what the professional class does for what it i...
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