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The grand intellectual experiment of imagining Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Camus engaging with the future of Artificial Intelligence initially illuminates their profound skepticism regarding inevitable human flourishing. Yet, a deeper consideration of AI's ultimate capabilities—specifically its power to cross-correlate all human knowledge—reveals a compelling argument for a future where peace and prosperity become not merely aspirational, …

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) models combine a retrieval component—often a vector‐based search over an external knowledge source—with a generative language model. The basic RAG pipeline is: Query encoding & retrieval Cross-correlation among retrieved contexts Generator conditioning Why cross-correlation matters in RAG Reducing redundancy: When multiple retrieved chunks say the same thing, naive concatenation wastes tokens. Cross-correlation …

Throughout history, the most significant changes to human society have often emerged quietly, without the fanfare of political upheavals or religious movements. These changes, such as the advent of the washing machine, have transformed lives more profoundly than any revolution or war. The introduction of a home appliance that replaced manual labor in the form …