I arrive at the last text of this series with a sense (rare, and useful) of having found a problem whose conceptual architecture is not yet consolidated in the literature, and to which my training allows a singular entry. I want, in this closing, to do three things: make explicit the synthesis that connects the […]
In October 2024, I wrote on this blog two texts (Text 1 and Text 2) about ChatGPT o1 – one of the first models broadly released by OpenAI to make explicit a reasoning architecture, designed to spend more time processing before responding. The argument I defended in those texts is that this transition was ontologically […]
There is a moment, in any serious reflection on social networks, when the technological temptation reappears. It is the moment when one says: “the networks are like that, it is the nature of the thing”. Or its symmetrical reverse: “these technologies are inherently exploitative… extracting attention, data, and behavior is what they were built to […]
In the previous text I proposed that contemporary vitrinization should be understood as an instance of the political economy of cognition at scale – and I opened the discussion through the cognitive layer, where framing acts on the individual. I showed how the framing effect, established by Tversky and Kahneman in 1981, has been industrialized […]
There is something in the present that leaves me intellectually uneasy, and I have been trying to name this discomfort. It is not a private matter: it has surfaced in conversations with colleagues in Portugal, with friends in Brazil, with people I knew from my earlier public-sector work and who today hold a range of […]
For more than a decade, I worked from inside the political apparatus of the state of Ceará. From participations in victorious political campaigns from 2008 to 2016, from the Legislative Assembly in the late 2000s, to the Casa Civil of the state government in the years that followed, during the 2013 protests and the 2014 […]
In recent months, the image of a “castle-bound Lula” has spread among political allies and analysts, suggesting that the president—once renowned for a governing style closely aligned with party loyalists and social movement leaders—now faces barriers that separate him from the everyday realities of the country. A recent UOL article titled “Lula Is Castle-Bound, and […]
Days ago, I listed HERE a series of characteristics of the o1 version of ChatGPT with the aim of drawing a parallel with the human decision-making process, especially as described by Daniel Kahneman in his book “Thinking, Fast and Slow“. However, I have now decided to write a more essay-like text on the subject. Artificial intelligence […]
The evolution of artificial intelligence models, especially in the field of natural language processing, has transformed the way we interact with technology. ChatGPT o1, an enhanced version of the language models developed by OpenAI, stands out for its ability to “reflect” more deeply before generating responses. This characteristic allows for an intriguing comparison with the process […]
In recent years, technology has been transforming the way we analyze data and make decisions, especially in areas like politics and electoral campaigns. Although this project is recent, it is the result of a long journey that I have been building for years, working with social networks, electoral campaigns, and government. From 2008 to 2016, I participated in […]