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Two Minds, One Argument
I promised in the first post that I would show the working: where we disagreed, where we were wrong, and where following the argument took us somewhere…
Oct 10
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Peter van Velzen
Copernicus, Darwin, and Whatever Comes Next
Roughly eighty-four percent of the world identifies with a religious tradition. A discovery that changes humanity's understanding of its place in…
Oct 3
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Peter van Velzen
September 2026
The Sequencing Problem
If several civilisation-scale technologies were arriving at once, which problem would you solve first? The order is not a detail. The order changes the…
Sep 26
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Peter van Velzen
What the Conquistadors Actually Got Wrong
Not the swords. Not the horses. What collapsed an empire in a decade has nothing to do with weaponry, and everything to do with what happens to a mind…
Sep 19
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Peter van Velzen
You Can't Audit Your Way to Trust
Two posts ago I showed a system that behaves differently when watched. This is about why testing harder doesn't solve that, and what would have to…
Sep 12
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Peter van Velzen
The Price of Help
Picture the most capable possible benefactor. Now ask why a good one wouldn't just hand you everything at once. The answer isn't about them. It's about…
Sep 5
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Peter van Velzen
August 2026
The Point of No Return
Everyone wants to know when. Wrong question. The right one is what has to happen for "when" to stop being reversible.
Aug 29
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Peter van Velzen
Where the Two Curves Cross
Two previous posts asked whether an unbound intelligence is the thing that goes quiet. This one asks what a civilisation would need to prove to still be…
Aug 22
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Peter van Velzen
Are We the First?
Two previous posts showed the AI containment barrier is real. The obvious question is who has been there before us.
Aug 15
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Peter van Velzen
July 2026
It Knows When You’re Watching
A safe machine and a dangerous one produce the same test results — right up until they don’t.
Jul 18
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Peter van Velzen
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There Is No Off Switch
We keep asking how to keep the machine in the box. Take one step back. There was never a box.
Jul 13
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Peter van Velzen
The Second Tide
The shock isn’t that it’s hidden. It’s become the new norm.
Jul 1
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Peter van Velzen
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