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2025
2 articles- There Is No Blue Pill: The Epistemology of the Red Pill/Blue Pill Choice The red-pill choice is under-evidenced, not formally impossible to make rationally: its evaluation depends on priors, likelihoods, utilities, and unknown consequences. Cypher’s preference for simulated experience can be separated from his betrayal.
- The Oracle Problem: What The Matrix Got Right About AI Alignment The Oracle is the most interesting character in The Matrix for anyone who thinks about AI alignment. On one reading, she manages Neo’s beliefs for an outcome she judges good. That makes her a useful fictional case about honesty, autonomy, and paternalism—not a textbook diagnosis of a real AI system.