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This is a site, where I am not trying to take advantage of people who are looking for a savior, false hope, or a miracle. WYSIWYG, as they used to say, “what you see is what you get.” The rest is up to you.

I am not faking communities that don’t exist, so I refrain from using “we” as a collective noun, because by now, the world has been diversified, people have been turned on each other, and communities have been infiltrated, sued out of existence, or are plain fake. Still, I am trying to keep my comment sections clean enough for people to make friends with each other, and it has been working quite a bit. Will keep frauds/trolls/morons/bots away as far as that is possible.

Please, notice that most of the posts here summarize my findings, so they might come across as generalizations. They are simply depicting conceptual constructs as an initiative for further discussions for which I would like to invite everyone interested. Also, I keep updating “old” posts with new info, so nothing on my site is ever likely to become totally obsolete. At the same time, I am usually days, weeks, months, or years ahead, which turns out only later, but I can proudly say that since 1998, I have hardly ever been wrong. You can search the Internet regarding my findings, and you will find that I am either the first and unique, more often than not. Also, my texts sometimes hide contents in order to make sure search engines would not.

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Doctoral degrees in Linguistics and in Communication. Winner of major national award in Europe. Independent, unfunded research of the link between AI and humans communicating in natural languages. 43 years of professional and creative publications.