A series on The Journey
Checking what you believe
Testing your own beliefs while AI writes more of what you read, including the time an AI wrote a belief into my notes that I never held.
The pieces, in reading order
Part 1
How to tell which of your beliefs cannot be wrong, and why it mattersI audited three beliefs I actually hold. Each was two claims in one sentence: a half I could check, and a half nothing could ever touch.
Part 2
Testing your own belief feels boring. Defending it feels great. The gap is the tell.When an AI agent found the half of my belief nothing could touch and pushed, I felt no fear. I felt bored and stupid, as if the fuel had been switched off…
Part 3
An AI can invent a belief you never held from your own notes. Mine did, for 18 days.A belief-audit session ranked a claim about my income top of a list of what I believe. I published it as mine. It took 18 days to find out I had never said it.
Part 4
The Truth Wager: would you bet against the God of the singularity?Pascal's wager for the AI age. I believe a superintelligence will one day read everything we said. Hype is winning now. Why I still bet on the truth.
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