Does Claude earn his keep? That sentence has a household meaning here. My son uses it about himself, about his dog, about nearly everything that takes up room in our life. Penny the cat earns her keep. The wild birds we feed earn theirs. In this house, capability is not a character reference. It is…
Two weeks ago I wrote that political anxiety is easy to consume and that it is not the same thing as citizenship.¹ The argument still stands. This is the next ordinary step. Before we talk about plans and friends and watchfulness, we have to ask a question that sounds almost too small: Are you registered?…
The Formation of the Mind During COVID My first assumption during the early months of the COVID period was simple. If people could see the evidence, they would make better decisions. I believed that truth, once placed in the open, possessed a quiet strength of its own. That assumption did not survive contact with events….
A Name Short Enough to Use I wondered what little birthday present President Trump might have for me. There is usually some tidbit on Truth Social for one and all, something that makes me stop and think, Oh, what is this? He did not disappoint. China has never been abstract to me. I have followed…
President Trump wants to rename Artificial Intelligence. Good. So do I. On September 19, Trump called the name “Artificial Intelligence” inaccurate and ineloquent and proposed alternatives: Superior Intelligence, Extreme Intelligence, or Supreme Intelligence. He put the question to a public poll. The following day, Supreme was dropped and the choice narrowed to Superior or Extreme.¹…
Learn the Tool. Judge the Plant Late Friday night my brother and I spent nearly an hour on artificial intelligence, data centers, jobs, water, and electricity. We do not usually spend Friday that way. The subject was on his mind. It is on many people’s minds. A teacher at a noted boys’ school in Alexandria…