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Newsletter Nr. 1.462
Amsterdam, December 2, 2025

The Ragged Frontier of AI - Where It Shines — and Where It Still Fails - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Artificial intelligence today stands on what could be described as a ragged frontier—a boundary that is neither stable nor smooth, but uneven, shifting, and difficult to map. It stretches across domains where AI displays superhuman competence, and abruptly breaks off in regions where it performs clumsily, or not at all. The friction between capability and limitation is precisely what makes this moment so revealing: AI is powerful enough to transform society, yet flawed enough that we cannot trust it blindly. The frontier is expanding, but not uniformly.

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The Twin Dragons of Emergence - Microcosm, Macrocosm, and the Evolution of Cooperation - The Dreaming Kosmos, Chapter 11  Joseph Dillard

For centuries, the Western world has thrived under the logic of competition. Dominance, conquest, extraction, individualism, and control became the measure of success, the gold and jewels guarded in the mountain halls of civilization's Smaug-like dragon. Its vigilance ensured the expansion of empires across continents and oceans. Trade networks flourished, technological advances accelerated, and wealth accumulated in ways unprecedented in human history. Yet every expansion bore a cost: economic inequality, ideological extremism, ecological devastation, and unending cycles of war. The dragon's treasure gleamed, but cracks festered in its foundation.

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