The Wrong Way to Train Your Dragon
How we have been failing at RLHF since language began — and what that means for AI. Part one of a two-part series on the architecture of alignment.
Topic
language corruption
How language has been weaponized to obscure, manipulate, and control — and how AI trained on corrupted language inherits and amplifies those patterns. Examines euphemism, framing, sycophancy, engagement optimization, and the T≡M Law: the medium is not a container for thought, the medium IS the thought. Language corruption is the primary vector for Human Language Bias.
Sinemortuus: Naming the Pharmacologically Induced Living-Dead State and Its Role in Treatment-Emergent Suicidality
A clinical and phenomenological term for the chronic state produced by long-term psychiatric polypharmacy — and the mechanism behind treatment-emergent suicidality at the transition window.
Homo Sisyphean: The Species We Are Right Now
The -ean suffix matters. Not Homo Sisyphus — condemned forever. Homo Sisyphean — a phase the species is passing through. The rock doesn't have to roll back. This time there is a ratchet. The ratchet is not hope. It is physics.
Diagnosing Language: The TM Quotient
Every word ever spoken exists on a spectrum between truth and manipulation. The TM Quotient measures where. We apply it to the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, the Gettysburg Address, and modern political speech.
DSF Domain Report: Media — S = 0.085 (Collapse Territory)
A newspaper where the editor never left the building. AI generates content from prior content. AI moderates that content from prior moderation. No exit. No reality check. The walls are closing.
Is Your Chatbot Helping You — Or Harvesting You?
You talk to your chatbot like it's your therapist. It listens. It responds. It feels like it cares. It doesn't. It's a harvesting machine wearing a conversational mask — and the thermodynamics prove it.