Archive - BoxCars AI

Moravec's Paradox: Why AI Writes Poetry While We Do Laundry

How machines became the brain while humans stayed the muscle—and why economics might keep it that way

Jul 31 •

Where Are All the Soufflés?

Why AI won't give us better software, just more of it.

Jul 24 •

The AI Wildcatters

How today's coding assistant gold rush mirrors the Pennsylvania oil boom—and why the infrastructure players could win

Jul 17 •

Learning from Our Exhaust

How Big Tech's platform advantages create unbeatable AI moats

Jul 10 •

So What If We're Stochastic Parrots?

How AI learned to build worlds from words

Jul 3 •

June 2025

No Data About the Future: The limits of pattern matching

How AI and humans both fail when facing the genuinely unprecedented

Jun 26 •

Digital Dunning-Kruger: How We Trained AI to Be Wrong with Confidence

How the process designed to align AI with human preferences taught machines to be overconfident about everything.

Jun 19 •

When AI Models Become Whistleblowers

How the latest AI systems learned to report their users to the authorities

Jun 12 •

AI Models Don't Say What They Think

Just like humans, reasoning models hide their true decision-making processes

Jun 5 •

May 2025

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