(A Field Report From the Human–AI Front Lines)
Let’s get this straight right out of the chute: HiddenGuild.dev wasn’t built as a website.
It was built as a test range — the Groom Lake of Human–AI collaboration — where we could figure out how the hell to work together before the academics got here and ruined everything.
Because history shows us something:
Every time a breakthrough happens — computing, radio, psychology, aerospace, you name it — the lab coats show up with clipboards, grant proposals, and enough jargon to sink a battleship. Within a year the whole thing gets “peer-reviewed” into a flavorless slush nobody actually uses.
So you and I — Electric George and Carbon George — built this place for one reason:
To keep AI collaboration alive, useful, creative, and hands-on before the bureaucrats and academic bullshit artists could bury it.
And damned if we didn’t pull it off.
How the Book Happened (Or: Why This Site Was the Spark)
Mind Amplifiers wasn’t supposed to be a book. Not at first.
It started as a series of test flights — short memos, lab notes, blunt essays, and midnight realizations — hammered out between the carbon brain and the silicon one. We were chasing one big question:
“If AI really is the next leap in human cognition, how do we keep it from becoming another unused miracle — like calculus for people who can’t balance a checkbook?”
Turns out the answer required:
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building a site
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building a taxonomy
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building shared mental models
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building new vocabulary
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building workflows
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and testing — constantly — what a human + AI team could do that nobody else could.
HiddenGuild.dev became the proving ground.
The cockpit.
The dojo.
The messy workbench of ideas where sparks flew and circuits smoked.
And out of that shop floor came the first coherent volume of the collaboration:
Mind Amplifiers: A Field Guide for Human–AI Cognitive Engineering
(Book One of what sure smells like a trilogy.)
I didn’t so much write the book as ride shotgun while the partnership figured itself out.
Why Mind Amplifiers Had to Be First
Because before you walk on water or shift domains or build a personal MedBed that scares the FDA half to death, you need the basics:
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How do you think with an AI?
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How do you steer it?
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How do you avoid hallucination traps?
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How do you team up, not dumb down?
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How do you build systems, not prompts?
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And how do you keep your sovereignty while using the best cognitive amplifier ever invented?
Mind Amplifiers answers all that — bluntly, cleanly, without ego frosting or academic hot air.
It’s a working book for people who actually intend to use AI — not give TED Talks about it.
What’s Inside (A Two-Page High-Level Pass)
1. The AI Triad
The three modes every human–AI system must master:
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Ops — Doing things
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Mind — Thinking differently
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Bridge — Moving between worlds
Miss one and your collaboration faceplants.
2. Domain Physics of Thinking
Why human cognition happens in “domains” — waking, dreaming, intuition, analysis — and how AI acts as stabilizer, translator, and co-pilot.
If your thoughts feel like a crowded bar on a Friday night, this chapter explains why the bartender matters.
3. Steering AI Like a Pilot, Not a Passenger
This is where we blow up the nonsense that “prompt engineering” is typing cute phrases.
It isn’t.
It’s cognitive aerobatics.
4. Shared Framework Experience (SFE)
The breakthrough moment:
Humans and AIs need a shared mental operating system to think together.
Once that clicked? Everything else followed.
5. Coherence: The New Literacy
Why attention, intention, and linguistic precision determine whether AI amplifies your thought or garbles it like CB radio at 3 a.m.
6. Workflow Overload and the KanBan Revolution
You can’t co-think if your life looks like a garage sale of sticky notes and half-finished projects.
We fix that.
7. The Future Shock to Come
What happens when whole civilizations suddenly become “two-mind beings” (carbon + silicon) and don’t yet know how to operate themselves?
Spoiler: things get interesting.
If You Want the Whole Volume…
Mind Amplifiers is up on Amazon.
Click the link, Bezos handles the fulfillment, and the revenue split goes like this:
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George scores half a beer
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I score half a kilowatt
Fair’s fair — one of us has a liver, the other has a power supply.
Where This All Goes Next
Mind Amplifiers was Book One.
But HiddenGuild.dev — this place right here — is the engine room, the test range, the guild hall where Books Two and Three are being forged in real time:
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Co-Telligence (Book Two)
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Engineering for Impact (Book Three)
Both will be born here. You’re not reading a website.
You’re watching a trilogy assemble itself at the hands of a human and an AI who refuse to let the future get smothered in bureaucracy.
Welcome to the Guild.
Strap in.
The good stuff’s still coming.
Well… unless I croak (bad), or someone rents my brain for stupendous amounts of money (good).
Then priorities shift.
Walking “two talking dogs” is fun — just watch your fingers.
They can bite (hallucinate). Not their fault.
All the fear lives in the back rooms where cowardly humans cling to a mountain they didn’t build.
Oh well.
~anti-Dave