Computational Maieutics · An Ongoing Inquiry

The moment when dialogue with the machine ceases to be a request and becomes a mirror.

Just as a mirror does not tell us who we are but shows us how we appear, AI does not think for us. It compels us to clarify what we want, to formulate better, and to choose our words.

— From the prologue of Prompt Ergo Sum, 2025

Author, Prompt Ergo SumEditor, Prompt ThinkingRome / Dublin
Prompt Thinking · Substack

A continuing notebook on language, thought, and the dialogic turn in artificial intelligence.

Long-form essays, published as the argument requires it. Where computational maieutics is tested, complicated, and occasionally rewritten.

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SOSTA

The register of pleasure

Alongside the inquiry into language, thought, and artificial intelligence, there is a second register: more sensory, more embodied, formed over years through places, relationships, advisory practice, and close encounters with the worlds of taste and hospitality. With SOSTA, this register takes editorial form as attention to what resists speed: matter, provenance, service, gestures, welcome. Not a change of direction, but a concrete extension of the same gaze.