{"id":937,"date":"2026-04-27T13:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/?p=937"},"modified":"2026-06-09T21:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T04:54:07","slug":"were-solving-the-wrong-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/2026\/04\/were-solving-the-wrong-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Solving the Wrong Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1726, Jonathan Swift described a machine that could produce works of philosophy, poetry, politics, law, mathematics, and theology out of context.<\/p>\n<p>The professor&#8217;s solution for improving the output? Build five hundred more.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still cranking the handles.<\/p>\n<p>New article: &#8220;We&#8217;re Solving the Wrong Problem&#8221;, on Ramon Llull, the Grand Academy of Lagado, and why alignment-as-control is the wrong frame for what we&#8217;re building.<\/p>\n<p>(Read, <a href=\"\/realstuff\/essays\/were_solving_the_wrong_problem\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Room Where It Gets Built &#8212; Essay #7: We\u2019re Solving the Wrong Problem<\/a>)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/realstuff\/essays\/were_solving_the_wrong_problem\/hero.png\" width=\"60%\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1726, Jonathan Swift described a machine that could produce works of philosophy, poetry, politics, law, mathematics, and theology out of context. The professor&#8217;s solution for improving the output? Build five hundred more. We&#8217;re still cranking the handles. New article: &#8220;We&#8217;re Solving the Wrong Problem&#8221;, on Ramon Llull, the Grand Academy of Lagado, and why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkedin","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}