AI can create the appearance of cause and effect in situations where none actually exists.

Hallucinations, sycophancy, and deepfakes can look real, but none of them are.

This creates a feeling of confidence that is disconnected from verifiable truths.

When I was in college, I became fascinated with one of the consequences of Einstein's relativity. Simply put, if something could travel faster than the speed of light, the ordering of events would stop making sense.

Imagine a bullet that travels faster than its own light. In a scenario like this, you'd theoretically see a bird fall from the sky before you saw the hunter pull the trigger. Cause and effect would be reversed—not because the events changed, but because the geometry of observation did.

The physics made sense. It told you that causality, the core assumption of both science and experience, wasn't absolute but constrained by structure. And if you........

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