The School of the Quill
Chronicles
Essays, investigations and tutorials on artificial intelligence, written with the very machines they describe. Published here first, no paywall.
I Understand Nothing About J-Space
Anthropic found a secret bulletin board inside Claude where the model pins its thoughts before speaking. Explained as if to a 7-year-old: the Jacobian lens, soccer turned into rugby, the spider turned into an ant, and what it really implies for machine consciousness.
Read →The Coal Paradox
Tokenmaxxing, the AI price war and Jevons paradox: we divided the price of intelligence by a thousand in three years, and it is ruining us. A sourced essay, from the DeepSeek shock to the 456,000 dollars of a single ARC-AGI test.
Read →The Prompter
Two thirds of employees consult an AI behind their boss’s back, the Pentagon installs Grok onto its classified networks, a prime minister asks ChatGPT for a second opinion. A chronicle of delegation in cascade: no one seized power, it is being whispered to us.
Read →The Suspended Fable
A model named Fable held eighteen days at the border by its own government, another released because judged harmless, 28 million conversations siphoned off by a Chinese giant. A chronicle of the month when control of AI became an administrative stamp.
Read →The Broke Agent
Step-by-step tutorial: set up an autonomous AI assistant on your machine, for free, in 15 minutes. For the complete beginner.
Read →The Lord and His Willing Serfs
Investigation: why calling Musk a nazi hides the real danger, techno-feudalism, and why we consent to it (from Chapoutot to La Boetie). With French audio narration.
Read →The Orphan Intention
The paradox of the LLM-Meeseeks: how a machine with no intention dispossesses us of ours. An in-depth essay, with French audio narration.
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