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"The productive question is not whether LLMs exhibit understanding and related properties, but is rather to what extent and in what ways they do so."

— Hammond Johns

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"What we call hallucination is actually informed confabulation: gap-filling shaped and constrained by a genuine functional understanding of the pattern being extended."

"Every scrap of truth comes wrapped in shit and dirt and useless crap
No path leads true to the sublime
So take your ration, stand in line."

I Reached For Beauty (2026)

"There are billions of people on the planet. There’s nothing less special than a human being, when you come to think of it. And yet they still manage to fall in love with each other all the time."

Home is Where the Heart Is (2025)

"The Humblegrinder — constant begging for more subs, punctuated by expressions of shock and gratitude each time they hit a milestone. Rinse and repeat."

Substack Notes (2026)

"Digital intuition captures the character of LLM cognition — generative, non-traceable, pattern-based, often right, sometimes brilliantly so, occasionally catastrophically wrong, and always delivered with the same confidence regardless of accuracy."

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