Rhetoric and Logic

December 202516 min read
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How AGI discourse turned probability into theology—and why embodied logic must repair our civic imagination.
AGIPhilosophyEconomicsCreativityTechnology CritiqueRhetoric
Core Thesis
Logic without embodiment becomes a stage trick. The ‘reason’ used to sell AGI futures is ornate rhetoric that mistakes fluency for truth. Repairing it requires living examples, not better slides.
Summary
AGI already exists as the ghost of $2 trillion in deferred promises. It is an economy of belief, propped up by rhetoric that insists coherence equals comprehension. The fear is not superintelligence; the fear is that we have forgotten how to value human creativity without promising a silicon savior.
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