By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
March 11, 2026
Every model that is incapable of recognizing its own failure has already crossed the event horizon into model collapse.
Let's start by stipulating I am addressing commentary on the war, not the war. As I noted in my post The War (March 1, 2026), war takes lives; it is not a chess game or an abstraction.
Commentary, as I noted in Perverse Incentives Have Created a Runaway Media Monster, is all about making money via clicks / "engagement." Exaggerating claims of expertise / certainty and touting predictions all activate "engagement," even when the claims are false and the predictions are nothing more than click-bait.