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 Heartbeat Layer: When the Knowledge Pipeline Becomes Executable The jump from “content” to “systems” A lot of people still treat this like a media problem: “We...
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,...
by Marcus Hermansson | Nov 17, 2025 | "Science", Computer Science & AI, Social & Behavioral Science
The Large Language Manifold A New Lens on Language and Cognition We keep pretending the interesting object is “the model”: a big neural net in a datacenter that you poke with prompts and read answers from. That picture is already obsolete. As soon as we plugged these...
by Marcus Hermansson | Sep 14, 2025 | "Science", Consciousness & Cognitive Science, Social & Behavioral Science
TL;DR Your everyday “me-ness” is not a hidden pearl; it’s a layered, locally‑run simulation that your brain–body builds to keep prediction error low. The self isn’t a substance—it’s a model. That model boots up in a characteristic order after...
by Marcus Hermansson | Jan 13, 2025 | "Science", Business, Computer Science & AI, Social & Behavioral Science
I Conducted an Experiment with ChatGPT, and Here’s What We Discovered When it comes to detecting human emotion through voice, you’d think that sarcasm—with all its subtleties—would be impossible for an AI to understand. Sarcasm doesn’t rely on just words; it...
