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The Model Is the Payload Aug 2026 A crafted .tflite model corrupts memory before a single token is generated.
Introducing Orpheus: Security for AI Coding Agents Aug 2026 Making the non-deterministic, deterministic.
The New Botnet: Powered by Your Personal AI Assistants Feb 2026 The AI era is being built with an "implement first, security last" methodology.
Dialectic, Philosophy and AI May 2025 What if the future of AI lies in the past?
The Generalist Paradigm Aug 2024 LLMs are permutators of existing data. The advantage goes to those who know their limits.
Enlightenment 2.0 - The thesis for and against AI Feb 2024 True AI will not arrive from scaling alone. It will be a hybrid of the grown and the built.
Web3 is not Blockchain Aug 2022 Web3 is not blockchain, NFTs or crypto. It is machine-generated content.
Fakespot solves one of NLP's most complex problems Jun 2022 A generative model that reads the reviews for you and writes the pros and cons.
Fakespot Highlights - AI powered summaries Sep 2020 Fakespot Highlights, now released on Fakespot.com, uses state of the art machine learning and NLP to summarize important points about a product
Biased, by design Aug 2019 We built courts to remove human bias. Now we are building AI that inherits it.

Favorite Books of 2021 Dec 2021 Five books that changed how I think about culture, war, consciousness, time and prosperity.

The Model Is the Payload Aug 2026 A crafted .tflite model corrupts memory before a single token is generated.
Revising the Lindy Effect Apr 2022 The Lindy Effect is missing two variables that decide what actually survives, entropy and trust.
De chao, ordo Aug 2019 What Vitruvius and the Pantheon taught me about building software that lasts.

The Truth Behind the Stars Aug 2021 Are those stars trustworthy?
Dear Jeff, Jul 2021 An open letter to Jeff Bezos.
The Information Asymmetry platforms Jul 2021 Platforms like Amazon have caused information asymmetry to dramatically shift for the consumer. Read more to find out why.
Amazon Fake Review Data Breach May 2021 A leak exposed millions of records tying sellers to fake reviews. It surprised no one here.
Who is buying your influence in 2021? Jan 2021 Money can buy power, comfort and land. It can also buy your influence, and it does.
Let's talk about fake reviews - part 1 Oct 2020 The state of fake reviews and eCommerce fraud after 5 years of analysis at Fakespot

Fakespot is acquired by Mozilla! May 2023 Fakespot is joining Mozilla to bring trust and transparency to the browser itself.
Fakespot solves one of NLP's most complex problems Jun 2022 A generative model that reads the reviews for you and writes the pros and cons.
1 million active installs! Dec 2021 One million active installs, and 1.8 billion Fakespot Grades shown in 2021.
One week update after app takedown Jul 2021 A week after Amazon had our iOS app pulled, here is what we learned.
Dear Jeff, Jul 2021 An open letter to Jeff Bezos.
Fakespot Highlights - AI powered summaries Sep 2020 Fakespot Highlights, now released on Fakespot.com, uses state of the art machine learning and NLP to summarize important points about a product
Fakespot now supports eBay Aug 2020 Fakespot Guard now flags counterfeit sellers and shipping fraud on eBay.
Introducing - Fakespot Guardian Jun 2020 Announcing Fakespot Guardian, detecting the bad sellers behind counterfeits and scams.

Dialectic, Philosophy and AI May 2025 What if the future of AI lies in the past?
Enlightenment 2.0 - The thesis for and against AI Feb 2024 True AI will not arrive from scaling alone. It will be a hybrid of the grown and the built.
Revising the Lindy Effect Apr 2022 The Lindy Effect is missing two variables that decide what actually survives, entropy and trust.
Favorite Books of 2021 Dec 2021 Five books that changed how I think about culture, war, consciousness, time and prosperity.
The Information Asymmetry platforms Jul 2021 Platforms like Amazon have caused information asymmetry to dramatically shift for the consumer. Read more to find out why.
Reflections Mar 2020 Marcus Aurelius led Rome through a plague that killed a third of the empire. This too shall pass.
Biased, by design Aug 2019 We built courts to remove human bias. Now we are building AI that inherits it.
De chao, ordo Aug 2019 What Vitruvius and the Pantheon taught me about building software that lasts.

The Model Is the Payload Aug 2026 A crafted .tflite model corrupts memory before a single token is generated.
Introducing Orpheus: Security for AI Coding Agents Aug 2026 Making the non-deterministic, deterministic.
The New Botnet: Powered by Your Personal AI Assistants Feb 2026 The AI era is being built with an "implement first, security last" methodology.