Obsession? Maybe. Yet I still keep thinking about large language models and how they are capturing our minds. Each new version seems to push boundaries that were once cognitively sacrosanct. My own reaction continues to shift between admiration and unease. But curiously, I'm finding this imbalance rather informative—like a carnival ride tethered to consequence. And when AI appears to resolve faster than our judgment about it, something worth examining is taking place.

This particular unease isn’t rooted in a fear that machines are becoming too intelligent. It's something different and comes from watching the very meaning of intelligence itself begin to change. AI increasingly occupies the space where thinking is expected to appear. What’s harder to determine is whether the internal pressures that once gave that space its weight are still present.

I’ve used the term anti-intelligence to describe this shift. What I’m trying to name is a "structural reversal" that becomes visible when you shift from evaluating outputs and start paying attention to how those outputs are produced. The outward signals of intelligence intensify, while the........

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