ocrampal13h ago

We have become master cartographers of the "given." By scaling computation, we have built maps so vast and detailed that we often mistake the territory for the grid.

https://www.ocrampal.com/the-question-ai-will-never-ask/

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The Question AI Will Never Ask

We have become master cartographers of the "given." By scaling computation, we have built maps so vast and detailed that we often mistake the territory for the grid. But as the dialogue between the AI Practitioner and the Philosopher reveals, our current path in Artificial Intelligence is a pursuit of

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson19h ago
Today's highly anticipated PhD thesis defense: Neurologist Anna-Karin Roos and her thesis "Investigating nucleotide repeat expansions as a cause and modifier of neurodegenerative diseases in Sweden". Opponent: Prof. Åsa Petersén from Lund University #medsky #academicsky #neurosky
ocrampal4d ago

We talk endlessly about what AI can and cannot do. We talk very little about the assumptions built into the question itself. This dialogue follows a philosopher and an AI practitioner.

https://ocrampal.com/from-plato-to-gradient-descent-the-frame-we-forgot-we-chose/

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From Plato to Gradient Descent: The Frame We Forgot We Chose

Practitioner: I’ll be honest—I find the "philosophy of AI" a bit indulgent. We aren’t guessing anymore. We’re building systems that work. GPT, AlphaFold, Sora... these aren't accidents. We’ve clearly cracked the code on how intelligence functions. Philosopher: I don’t doubt the results. But results

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ocrampalFeb 27

AI won't reduce the number of programmers. It will create millions more, because running code you cannot understand is not programming. It is faith.

https://www.ocrampal.com/there-will-be-more-programmers-not-fewer/

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There Will Be More Programmers, Not Fewer

AI won't reduce the number of programmers. It will create millions more, because running code you cannot understand is not programming. It is faith. Part I — The Hypothesis The Democratization Arc, and What It Actually Produced. The prevailing narrative about AI and programming runs like this: LLMs will automate code

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HackadayFeb 17

The Complicated Legacy of Mind Controlled Toys

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/02/17/the-complicated-legacy-of-mind-controlled-toys/

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The Complicated Legacy of Mind Controlled Toys https://hackaday.com/2026/02/17/the-complicated-legacy-of-mind-controlled-toys/
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The Complicated Legacy Of Mind Controlled Toys

Imagine a line of affordable toys controlled by the player’s brainwaves. By interpreting biosignals picked up by the dry electroencephalogram (EEG) electrodes in an included headset, the game…

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ocrampalFeb 3

LLMs are masters of the "Understood"—the vast library of human output. But they lack "Understanding"—the creative spark that generates those concepts in the first place.

https://www.ocrampal.com/the-understood-understanding-gap-why-llms-hit-a-wall/

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The Understood-Understanding Gap: Why LLMs Hit a Wall

Large Language Models have become ubiquitous in knowledge work, yet a curious pattern has emerged. Talk to consultants at McKinsey, BCG, Bain, and you'll hear the same refrain: "I don't really know how I can leverage AI to boost my productivity beyond research and brainstorming." The same applies to programmers,

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ocrampalJan 29

Excel didn’t kill accountants; it gave them better tools. Yet, with AI, we’ve abandoned this logic in favor of a collective fantasy. We’re treating a sophisticated calculator as a human replacement rather than a human multiplier.

https://www.ocrampal.com/the-shared-delusion-both-doomers-and-dreamers-assume-current-technology-leads-to-agi-theyre-both-wrong/

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The Shared Delusion: Both doomers and dreamers assume current technology leads to AGI. They’re both wrong

Excel didn’t kill accountants; it gave them better tools. Yet, with AI, we’ve abandoned this logic in favor of a collective fantasy. We’re treating a sophisticated calculator as a human replacement rather than a human multiplier. The reason for this shift is the "2-to-5-year" horizon. For decades,

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ocrampalJan 16

AI without meaning is not intelligence, it is mathematics

https://ocrampal.com/ai-and-the-neglect-of-meaning-from-unlimited-to-indefinite/

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AI and the Neglect of Meaning: From Unlimited to Indefinite

The story of artificial intelligence is not just one of increasing computational power—it’s also a story about how machines relate to meaning. Or more precisely, how meaning has been progressively sidelined in favor of statistical pattern manipulation. To understand this, we can trace AI’s evolution through a

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