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I'm not a cat

Jamie Brandon · 24 Jun 2026 · scattered-thoughts.net ↗

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Every claim below was made in this piece, quoted word for word and numbered in the order the piece makes them, so you can read it there rather than take our word for it. The sentence above each quote is our reading of the claim, not their wording. Each quote was checked against a stored copy of the page at build time; where the two differ, the quote is the fact.

  1. Our reading

    Thoughts, feelings, decisions and bodies are not real in themselves, only useful abstractions layered over the underlying chaos of atoms.

    Their wordsThoughts, feelings, decisions, even bodies don't exist, they're only abstractions that we use to manage the chaos.

  2. Our reading

    It was naive to think a sufficiently powerful AI system could be safely contained in a 'box'.

    Their wordsIn hindsight, it was childish to think that we'd put it in a box at all.

  3. Our reading

    Humanity is unlikely to change in any fundamental way any time soon.

    Their wordsI have no faith in the people in charge of the future, but humanity isn't going to change any time soon.