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Sitting with a MadMind Podcast
by Stewart Barteau
Dispatches from the edge of reason, addressed to whoever is still paying attention. sittingwithamadmind.substack.com
Episodes
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THE BENEVOLENT CROWBAR
By Stewart Barteau In April 1917, a bureaucrat named Cato Sells decided that individual examinations were simply too slow. Sells, then the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, issued a “Declaration of Policy” that was hailed as a magnificent milestone of progressive efficiency. With a stroke of his…
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Beyond Optimization: Can We Build Alignment into the Architecture?
Beyond Optimization: Can We Build Alignment into the Architecture? For too long, I have felt that we are approaching the AI alignment problem from the wrong end of the telescope. We treat alignment as a corrective afterthought—a series of fragile, post-hoc patches applied after the monumental...
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When Tissue Loses Its Voice : The Real Story Behind Early-Onset Cancer
Authors PhilPeople Profile for Full Papers We are living through a season of thinning. It is a quiet, pervasive sensation, like the slow draining of color from a landscape or the way a conversation falters when the participants realize they are no longer speaking the same language. We have spent...
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What Cancer and AI Hallucinations Have in Common: The Collapse of Constraint
Beyond Optimization: Can We Build Alignment into the Architecture? For too long, I have felt that we are approaching the AI alignment problem from the wrong end of the telescope. We treat alignment as a correction—a series of patches applied after the hard work of training is finished. We take a...
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The Canary in the Tissue: Why Early-Onset Cancer is a Civilizational Report Card
The Canary in the Tissue: Why Early-Onset Cancer is a Civilizational Report Card We’ve spent a century trying to "cure the trace" while the upstream constraints of our biology—and our society—are quietly thinning. From the rise of cancer in 30-year-olds to the "hallucinations" of AI, the pattern…
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The Hidden Success of a "Failed" War
For over fifty years, the American public has been told that the War on Drugs is a tragic, expensive failure. But what if the results we see today—unprecedented mass incarceration and a thriving global drug trade—are actually signs of a policy operating exactly as designed? Our latest audio...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Dispatches from the edge of reason, addressed to whoever is still paying attention.
sittingwithamadmind.substack.com
HOSTED BY
Stewart Barteau
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Dispatches from the edge of reason, addressed to whoever is still paying attention. sittingwithamadmind.substack.com
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