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The Absurdity of These Priorities

  • Mitch Smith

Mitch Smith

Apr 23, 2026 • 5 min read
The Absurdity of These Priorities
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Explaining the Unexplainable

Explaining the Unexplainable

For the first time in history, humans have created machines -- large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, Claude, and xAI -- that function in ways no one can understand or explain – even the creators themselves. The internal combustion engine, the vacuum tube, the transistor, the laser, the integrated circuit? These
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USPS mail dropbox on a street corner curb. Floating in the foreground are images of a red "Return to Sender" marking, and a 32 cent US postage stamp.
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I was sitting by the edge of the meadow when I heard it fall. Just sitting, in a Zen sort of trance, in one of those folding camp chairs, the kind that has some nylon pack cloth strung onto an accordion frame of lightweight metal tubing, which can articulate open
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