by Marcus Hermansson | May 10, 2026 | "Science", Computer Science & AI, Social & Behavioral Science
Series: (1) The Firehose of Plausibility → (2) An Upstream Epistemic Attack → (3) The Heartbeat Layer In three earlier essays, I described how AI changes the information environment: first through a firehose of plausibility, where convincing narratives can be produced...
by Marcus Hermansson | May 6, 2026 | "Science", Social & Behavioral Science, Violence & Extremism
America is selling its current immigration crackdown as security policy. In the narrowest possible sense, some enforcement is security policy. If someone is genuinely dangerous, remove them. If someone repeatedly offends, sanction them. If someone has no lawful basis...
by Marcus Hermansson | Mar 13, 2026 | "Science", Business, Computer Science & AI, Consciousness & Cognitive Science, Social & Behavioral Science
Current state of the theory and what I’m building now This post is an update to my earlier piece, Methodology: Teaching AI to Understand Sarcasm. That post still holds up as an early intuition: sarcasm cannot be solved from words alone, and layered evidence matters....
by Marcus Hermansson | Feb 8, 2026 | "Science", Computer Science & AI, Social & Behavioral Science
Series: (1) The Firehose of Plausibility → (2) An Upstream Epistemic Attack → (3) The Heartbeat Layer The jump from “content” to “systems” A lot of people still treat this like a media problem: “We need to fix the content.” No. Content is the symptom. The deeper shift...
by Marcus Hermansson | Feb 6, 2026 | "Science", Computer Science & AI, Social & Behavioral Science
Disclaimer This is a defender write-up. The goal is to describe a threat surface so we can measure it, detect it, and harden against it. I’m not publishing an operator playbook. TL;DR In Part I, I introduced the Firehose of Plausibility: a scalable, AI-accelerated way...
by Marcus Hermansson | Feb 5, 2026 | "Science", Computer Science & AI, Social & Behavioral Science
Disclaimer This is a defender write-up. The goal is to describe a threat surface so we can measure it, detect it, and harden against it. I’m not publishing an operator playbook. TL;DR Most people fixate on the risk of solo brainwash: one person chats with an AI,...
