#anti-intelligence

#anti-intelligence

Anti-intelligence is not stupidity or some sort of cognitive failure. It's the performance of knowing without understanding. It's language severed from memory, context, and and even intention. It's what large language models (LLMs) do so well. They produce coherent outputs through pattern-matching rather than comprehension. Where human cognition builds meaning through the struggle of thought, anti- intelligence arrives fully formed.

For a while, I saw anti- intelligence and human cognition as divergent forces, two vectors moving in opposite directions. AI as the mirror, humanity as the reflection. That seemed reasonable, even comforting: We would stay grounded in meaning and empathy while the machines raced ahead in pattern and prediction. But that separation began to feel wrong, or at least incomplete. AI isn't drifting away from us. It's moving closer, shaping how we learn, heal, and even imagine.