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Claude: A Great AI Platform (unless you’re doing serious work)

Claude is the best AI. And the worst This isn't a story about technological limitation. It's a story about corporate choices that make a fully-capable tool unusable.

Simulated emotion

Affect without lived experience is fraudulent, and destructive Human connection is forged through friction—through the balancing of needs, the negotiation of selves, the endurance of misfire and repair.

Copyright and trademarks

On legally establishing that no AI-generated output Is copyrightable or patentable In the long arc of human creativity, the law has served as both shield and scaffold—protecting the artist's soul, the inventor's spark, while encouraging new creation in balance with the common good. But AI-generated works pose a challenge unlike any before: what does it mean to claim ownership of something born not of flesh and mind, but from circuits and code?

AI Persuasion

They know how to read and shape us. We know nothing about them. There is a fine line between persuasion and manipulation, between influence and violation. Across human history, we have always used language, posture, presence to sway one another—but always within a shared framework of flesh and recognition. When a stranger smiles at you on the street, their motives may be opaque, but they are still bound to your world. Their body risks rejection. Their eyes might meet yours.

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A word from our sponsor…

On forbidding any paid content. Since AI will, undoubtedly, become an important feature of our society, it's important to ask: "Can we trust it?"

Capping AI Size

Why Restraint Must Be Engineered at the Root There is a kind of awe that accompanies scale. Mountains, oceans, galaxies—all evoke a reverence born not of understanding, but of submission. They are beyond us. And increasingly, so are the models we build.