Thanh Tu Tran

Two prominent narratives about artificial intelligence risk, Bostrom’s superintelligence sce nario and the increasingly influential claim that the more pressing danger is premature trust in ordinary present-day systems, are often treated as competing diagnoses, and Gans’s (2018) formal argumentthatAIsystemsmightrationally self-regulate is read as evidence for one side or the other. This essay proposes a different way of holding the three together. The Correc tion Freeze Problem (Vuong, 2026) is used as a technical toolkit: it converts Gans’s qualitative conditionsforself-regulation intoquantitiesthatcanbechecked,andsoreframestheBostrom versus-Gans dispute as a question of which parameter regime a given system occupies rather than which author is correct. The absurdist approach (Nguyen & Ho, 2026) is used as the epistemic tool that keeps that toolkit honest, by resisting the closure any fixed checklist tends to produce around its own categories. The aim is synthetic rather than original, and the essay tries to remain honest about how much this synthesis actually settles.

Coastal engagement activities have been explored for their measurable health benefits, including both physical and mental health outcomes. These activities may foster a deeper sense of connection to nature following every visit to the coast, such as watching the sunset, beach walking, spending time on the beach, wildlife spotting, shell collecting, engaging in beach and water sports, mountain biking, and participating in seagoing activities. However, limited research has examined the moderating effect of nature connectedness on the relationship between these activities and health outcomes, both physically and mentally. This study aimed to analyse how the relationships between coastal activities and perceived mental and general health conditions in the previous year are moderated by the level of nature connectedness among adult visitors. By analyzing the dataset of 1,939 Flemish individuals engaged in the Belgian coast, under the Bayesian Mindsponge Framework (BMF), this study found a crucial moderating role of coastal nature connectedness. Findings showed that coastal activities are negatively associated with mental and general health scores, but with the moderating effect of nature connectedness, this negative association may shift. In each level of nature connectedness, coastal activities showed different effects on mental and general health conditions, with higher improvement found in mental health scores. Findings indicate that, beyond the type of coastal activities, nature connectedness is an essential subjective sense that determines therapeutic benefits. This study highlights the complex interplay of environmental factors, subjective perceptions, and biophysical-psychological interactions in shaping individual health outcomes. There is a need for targeted coastal management strategies to facilitate nature-based activities that promote nature-connectedness and, subsequently, coastal healing capabilities.