Posts

• Paradigm Shift

  Feb 18, 2026 - A discussion with ChatGPT 5.2 beginning by deepening our understanding of Thomas Kuhn's paradigm shift, and integrating it into our present moment

• Technology and Middle East Peace

  Nov 21, 2025 - A conversation framing hope and possibility, bringing in trauma awareness and helping begin to illuminate what lies under this conflict, archetypally.

• Limitations of LLMs and the Future of AI

  Sep 17, 2025 - Are we hitting the limits of what LLM-based AI is capable of? What’s next? A conversation with ChatGPT 5 which barely begins to paint the landscape of thought around the future; also, a science fiction reading list. This is obviously the first part in a series...

• Sam Harris Evolution

  Sep 15, 2025 - Have Sam Harris' views evolved since 2010, when he gave a TED Talk around the ideas in his book, The Moral Landscape? Then we zoom out to bring in "warmer" views

• Purpose of This Site

  Aug 3, 2025 - I'm probably going to move this page elsewhere, but seemed to capture well a "mission statement", as it were, for what this project is about

• Fierce Invalids

  Jul 27, 2025 - On Tom Robbins and one of my favorite novels

• Considering Cosmology

  Jul 26, 2025 - This conversation started as a simple question about the origins of the universe — but quickly expanded into reflections on consciousness, psychedelic insight, AI’s role in symbolic thought, and the difference between theory and cosmology. Along the way, I revisited Whitehead, Grof, Brian Swimme, and my own relationship to meaning

• Considering Cryptocurrency

  Jul 21, 2025 - A wide-ranging exploration of crypto: its significance, synergy with AI, ethical critiques, and what it means for value, governance, and collective imagination

• Google and AI

  Jul 10, 2025 - TBD...

• Dog Whistles and Hate Speech

  Jul 8, 2025 - Politics of AI

• A.I. Angst #1

  Jul 7, 2025 - The intense initial enthusiasm about publishing these conversations had worn off...

• Energy Efficiency

  Jul 7, 2025 - Questioning energy usage by AI

• Information Dieta

  Jun 24, 2025 - What are we really feeding ourselves when we consume news? A reflection on nervous-system-aware media, dieta, and digestible meaning

• Good News, Collapse, Emergence

  May 23, 2025 - Beginning to dig into politics — from surface optimism to systemic inquiry, a conversation on collapse, disconnection, and planting the seeds of what comes next

• And so I begin...

  May 1, 2025 - Some history of pltfrm.com, and the genesis of this blog