AI today risks becoming a tool of “automated ideology,” reinforcing corporate narratives instead of serving human insight, while failing to deliver on real-world intelligence rooted in feedback and context. A future techno-enlightenment hinges not on smarter algorithms, but on more precise positioning—linking AI to reality through centimeter-level data that can expose systemic failures, empower individuals, and challenge entrenched power.
Tag: Truth
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In Praise of Basic Instinct
Large language models dominate today’s AI, but their reliance on text divorces them from the real-world truth that lives in motion, sensation, and instinct—the very foundation of human and biological intelligence. To restore meaning and trust in AI, we must shift toward embodied, swarm-based systems that act on perception and feedback, where truth is not spoken, but felt and proven through motion.
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GPS: Understanding Our Ring of Power
GPS, once seen as a marvel of modern science, now faces critical limitations in accuracy, privacy, and national security—issues that threaten the efficiency and autonomy it once promised. The path forward lies in decentralized, ground-based PNT systems using RTK GNSS, chip-scale atomic clocks, and UWB, enabling AI to operate on real-world ground truth instead of abstract data, and revitalizing infrastructure with precision, resilience, and strategic foresight.
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Meet Your Robot Overlords
As AI spreads across military robotics and corporate call centers alike, the greatest threat isn’t a robot uprising—it’s the slow erosion of human agency, empathy, and accountability under the guise of automation. Whether battling a killer drone or a broken phone bill, our future hinges not on whether AI is strong or smart, but whether we can still find—and be—those rare humans who fight to preserve the soul in the machine.
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Are We Playing Chess or Dodgeball?
Despite massive investment and hype, scalable AI systems modeled on cloud-based optimization and data alone continue to hit real-world limits, especially in chaotic, unstructured environments more like dodgeball than chess. The key to unlocking robust, adaptive AI lies not in discarding human-crafted primitives but in embracing them—just as biology seeds learning with instinctual behaviors, robotics must begin with embodied, low-level intelligence that enables true situated learning and agile response.
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AI is the Seawitch – I Want My Voice Back
As generative AI blurs the boundaries between synthetic and real, truth itself is at risk of becoming just another corporate asset—shaped by ideology, monetized through your gaze, and sold back as reality. To resist this drift, we must ground AI in real-world data, accurate positioning, and measurable impact, ensuring that it reflects—not replaces—our humanity, our choices, and our wrinkled, complicated truths.