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Epistemic status: My own thoughts. Not predictions, just illustrations for the taxonomy. I think the taxonomy is still not perfect. AI use: research, discussion of the taxonomy and examples, grammar and phrasing, fact-checking/editorial review, and footnote formatting. I've read Capital Ownership Will Make You Go Crazy First. [1] At first,...

Epistemic status: A brief exploration based on court documents and contemporary reporting. My interpretation is tentative. AI use: context research, grammar. I don't remember how I stumbled upon the topic of legally dead people who are still alive. Basically, they are alive, but according to the government, they are dead....

Epistemic status: WARNING: this is fiction! I tried to base it on real events (linked in footnotes), but I am still making things up. It is not publicly documented that agent 53927 was assigned task arvo_53927; I assume that connection here. The prompts, internal narration, tool outputs, discovery sequence, and...

Epistemic status: reporting what OpenAI's own report and a Bitquery investigation say, plus my reading of it. I checked the transaction on the Sepolia block explorer; I have no inside knowledge of the incident. AI use: Claude (Fable 5.1) fact-checked the claims against OpenAI's report, the Bitquery write-up, the Sepolia...

Epistemic status: my personal reflections. AI use: Claude (Fable 5.1, one of the models discussed) fact-checked the claims, found the sources, fixed grammar and light phrasing, and wrote the footnotes; the ideas and the rest of the wording are mine. One of its responses during the review was itself cut...

Anthropic's unreleased model submits visa applications Epistemic status: recently disclosed event, so more may come out. The facts are from Anthropic's report, a State Department spokesperson quoted by Axios and the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the White House statement published by Axios; the count of 20 is my sum of the...

Epistemic status: two cases and the statute behind them. The first case rests on one side's account in a lawyer's call-in video; I have not seen her file. I am not a lawyer. I could not find a base rate. AI use: a Codex session did the research: pulled the...