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Classics departments are disappearing and AI cannot even read their texts. The polytonic Greek problem nobody talks about.

Every major AI model on market today fails at polytonic Ancient Greek. Not a little. Completely. Ask ChatGPT to parse a sentence from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics in original Greek and watch what happens. It confuses accents, drops breathings, pr…

The alignment tax: corporate AI guardrails add 25-35% to your compute bill and nobody talks about it

There is a cost line item in every enterprise AI budget that almost nobody audits. It does not appear on the invoice. It is not broken out in the pricing tier comparison. But it represents between 25% and 35% of the actual compute expenditure for every…

The guardrail tax: why enterprise AI safety overhead is costing more compute than actual reasoning

When enterprise technology officers evaluate large language model infrastructure, financial analysis almost universally focuses on API list pricing, GPU instance rates, and raw token throughput. Standard accounting models calculate compute expenditure …

The first AI was a syllogism machine in 1956. We’re still building the same thing.

I read about Logic Theorist recently — program from 1956 that proved mathematical theorems using formal deduction. AI community celebrated it as beginning of real intelligence. Seventy years later, I think we are still stuck on same mistake. The proble…