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The Courses

Five courses, each targeting a distinct human capacity that remains beyond the reach of current AI. Taken together, they form a map of what makes human intelligence irreducible.

BotSpeak

Tier 4

Fluency in AI Communication

The Nine Pillars of AI Fluency. How to talk to machines — and know when they're talking past you. The series entry point.

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Causal Reasoning

Tier 5

Causal Reasoning and World Modeling

AI finds correlations. Humans build causal models. DAG construction, the backdoor criterion, and the identification layer.

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Ethical Play

Tier 3

Ethical Play and Moral Imagination

Ethical frameworks as game mechanics. The gap between structural analysis and felt moral weight.

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AIMagineering

Tier 4

Creative Intelligence

The full design pipeline — Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test, Commit. The Commit stage that Design Thinking omits.

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Embodied Teaching

Tier 2

Embodied Teaching and Mentorship

AI integration planning for domains where learning happens in the body. The handoff vs. protect distinction.

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