The Wall That Wasn’t
On subtraction, convergence, and contact
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The night before New Year’s Eve, in a comment thread, a stranger sharpened his blade and swung it at me. Not maliciously. Deliberately.
Gabriel — a commenter who’d introduced me to the Platonic Representation Hypothesis, the spark for my previous essay — returned to test the frame. He said, essentially: you keep trying to deny the machine “true underst…
