§0. Orientation & Constraints Arena: Analysis (Neutral) — This essay examines the structure of a research paper, not the underlying technical problem. Key Line: AI hallucination research conflates epistemological translation (formalizing known constraints) with institutional discovery (documenting novel misalignments), obscuring which problems are fixable and which are fundamental. Philosophical Dependency: The distinction between "translation" and … Continue reading When Translation Masquerades as Discovery: The Dual Structure of AI Hallucination Research
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The Presence Assumption: Digital Wellness and the Community It Presupposes
When a St. John's College student described a six-day phone fast as revelatory—"presence with nearby people became necessary"—they echoed a thirty-year-old prescription: reframe digital detox from "anti-tech" to "pro-community" by filling screen-free space with genuine presence. Melissa Kirsch made the same argument in the New York Times Morning newsletter, opening with a 1996 artifact ("netaholism," … Continue reading The Presence Assumption: Digital Wellness and the Community It Presupposes
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