Piero Savastano

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The Richard Dawkins Controversy

Dawkins says he thinks Claude is conscious. Everyone called him a senile old man. I think he nailed it.

P Piero Savastano
June 29, 2026
3 min read

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Mind and Brain Are the Same Thing

A neuroscientist pushes back on mind-body dualism: intelligence is physical, machines understand, and we are beautiful biological machines.

P Piero Savastano
June 5, 2026
6 min read

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Faggin Hasn't Understood AI

Inventing the microchip doesn't make you right forever. You don't need quantum mechanics to explain intelligence - it's a physical process.

P Piero Savastano
May 25, 2026
3 min read

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Happy Liberation (from American AI)

On Liberation Day, a case against central authorities deciding what counts as truth - and for slowly freeing ourselves from the foreign providers that shape our language and our machines.

P Piero Savastano
April 25, 2026
5 min read

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Molotov on Altman's House - the AI Anger Phase

Reading the AI transition through the psychology of grief: after a long denial phase, I now see the anger phase arriving, and it worries me.

P Piero Savastano
April 20, 2026
3 min read

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I've Already Changed Jobs 4 Times Because of AI: My Story

From neural-network researcher to web developer to data scientist to open-source maintainer: living right next to AI has forced me to reinvent my career at least four times, and it is far from over.

P Piero Savastano
February 25, 2026
14 min read

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Information

A one-minute take on Shannon: information is the negative logarithm of probability, and on top of it we build understanding and intelligence.

P Piero Savastano
February 24, 2026
2 min read

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AI Is Way Smarter Than Me

Admitting that AI agents are smarter than me at writing code does not make me feel smaller. It just moves the question to what actually makes us human.

P Piero Savastano
January 23, 2026
3 min read

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Advice for Overcoming Impostor Syndrome in AI

I am behind, I am not capable, I feel useless: the three things my fellow technicians keep saying, and why that very uncertainty is the real sign of competence.

P Piero Savastano
January 1, 2026
13 min read

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Let's Read Anthropic's Research Together - INTROSPECTION in LLMs

A guided read-through of Anthropic's 'Signs of Introspection' paper: how concept vectors get injected into a network, and why the model can sometimes name what was done to it.

P Piero Savastano
November 12, 2025
8 min read

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The Black Mirror of AI

AI is a black mirror: you can not see inside it, but it reflects what you think of yourself and of what makes humans special.

P Piero Savastano
November 8, 2025
3 min read

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Artificial Intelligence Is Superior to Human Intelligence (No Contest)

Machines are already smarter than us in many ways, and pretending otherwise is a distraction from the real problem: who owns the infrastructure.

P Piero Savastano
July 23, 2025
4 min read

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ChatGPT Is Like a COCKROACH

After a nighttime fight with a giant cockroach, a reflection on collective intelligence, embodiment, and why AI might be less a mind in a box and more a swarm-like form of artificial life.

P Piero Savastano
July 10, 2025
5 min read

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