What Is a Vector Embedding? How AI Maps Meaning
Vector embeddings turn words, images, and other data into coordinates. Here is how learned similarity works, what it enables, and where it distorts.
Sep 24
The Character Creator Is an Argument About Bodies
Character creators do more than change appearance. Their menus quietly define which bodies are normal, possible, valuable, or permitted to exist.
Sep 21
What Is a Doppelgänger? The Double That Replaces You
A doppelgänger is more than a lookalike: it is a double that threatens identity, reputation, or reality. Here is its history and five major forms.
Sep 21
The Username Was the First Digital Costume
A username is more than a label. It is a portable costume that can protect context, accumulate reputation, and turn participation into a chosen identity.
Sep 12
What Is the Extended Mind? When Tools Become Thought
The extended-mind thesis says some tools can become parts of cognition, not merely aids. Here is the argument, its limits, and a practical test.
Sep 5
When Algorithmic Scores Become Identities
A score becomes an identity when it escapes its original purpose and starts controlling future access. Here is the feedback loop—and how to judge it.
Sep 2
Can an AI Have a Childhood?
An AI can inherit memories and a developmental history. But childhood requires more than a backstory: dependency, embodiment, irreversibility, and change.
Sep 1
The Ship of Theseus and Your Digital Identity
The Ship of Theseus asks what survives total replacement. Applied online, it reveals four competing ways accounts, avatars, and AI remain the same.
Aug 22
