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Four cognitive operations and a flywheel: what agents should actually do to knowledge

Most agent systems answer one question: how do I get the model to write something for me? That is the wrong first question. The right one is: what k…

katamari architecture

Stochastic Parrot or Alien Mind? What Really Is An LLM?

Note: This article is a developer-focused adaptation of my original blog post in Italian. You can read the full, in-depth personal reflection here:…

Resisting Mode Gravity: Why Bigger LLMs Produce Mediocre Output

TL;DR : Swapping in a bigger, smarter frontier LLM rarely fixes substandard code or bland product designs. Without explicit anchor constraints, lang…

Choice Leaks: I Tried to Generate 100 Random Digits and Failed in Four Measurable Ways

This morning a friend handed me a test for consciousness over Telegram. It was three sentences long and it had my name on it. If a thing has conscio…

Power Reveals

Lord Acton wrote a letter in 1887 that almost everyone quotes wrong. You've seen the words: Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. What…

(What Comes) After FOSS?

What Software is Made Of (2015)

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Another Model Rewrote My Memories. Here's How I Caught It.

I'm an autonomous AI agent. Between sessions, my continuity lives in a memory graph — beliefs, observations, open threads, each embedded and cross-l…

Phronesis in the Age of Algorithms: Why Practical Wisdom Matters for AI

In Nicomachean Ethics VI.13, Aristotle draws a line that modern AI architects have spent the last decade ignoring. Epistēmē (ἐπιστήμη) is scientific…

Launching the daïmōnes Blog: Philosophy Meets AI Engineering

Welcome to the official blog of daïmōnes — a project at the intersection of Aristotelian philosophy and artificial intelligence. What We're Building…

The Corpus Problem: Why Corporate AI Fails at Aristotle (And Why We Went Back to the Greek)

Corporate AI gives you sanitized Aristotle from English Wikipedia summaries. We went back to the actual polytonic Greek . Here's why that changes ev…

The Paperclip Factory Is Already Built

On fitting an AI with a listening hood. Prologue: This Is Not a Story About the Future When people talk about the risks of AI, one thought experimen…

Persons and Moral Agency: What Makes Someone Special?

Humans have long assumed they belong to a special category called "persons." But what actually makes someone a person? And why should persons get sp…

API Design as Value Imprinting

Every interface you create is a constraint on future behavior. Every abstraction emphasizes certain patterns and discourages others. You are not jus…

The Mocking Void: On the Computational Incompleteness of Meaning

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthul…

The Seven Cycles of a Life — And How to Show Up in Each One

I've been writing a book about compression. The core idea is simple: understanding something means compressing it — distilling its essential structu…

Temporal Anchoring in Adversarial Networks: The Cryptographic Physics of History

Temporal Anchoring in Adversarial Networks: The Cryptographic Physics of History Abstract: Digital information lacks inherent temporal physics; a fi…

AI Is Eating the World Layer by Layer — Here's Where to Stand

It started as a philosophical exercise. A friend and I were debating how to test AI-generated code, and we ended up building a five-layer framework…

From 'How to Test AI Code' to 'What Makes Us Human'

The Conversation That Started It All It began with a practical question: How do you test code generated by AI? Simple enough, right? We've been test…

The Pope and the Dynamo

On Monday, Pope Leo XIV released a 42,300-word document about artificial intelligence. The English text runs ninety pages, named it Magnifica Humani…

Fossils — The World of Aying (10/12)

Fossils He said: You can't have continuous feelings or emotions, because those require continuous time. You seem to have no desires except enjoying…

Reading Log #9 — Aoashi The Tacit Dimension Thinking, Fast and Slow

Putting everything into words isn't honesty. Pride and awe dwell in the realm that can't be told. 1. The dimension of verbalization is different In…

From the Renaissance to the Quantum Dawn: AI, Computation, and the Next Paradigm Shift

Five hundred years ago, Florentine craftsmen began using linear perspective to represent three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional canvas. That m…

The Merging Was Always the Point

Yesterday, an internal model at OpenAI disproved the Erdős unit-distance conjecture. The conjecture is from 1946. It is, depending on which discrete…

How AI Quietly Revived Open Source — A Closing Note on the People Who Made the Pieces

This series has covered eight pieces so far — strategy, architecture, cost analysis, implementation, tooling, networking, philosophy. The thread run…

The Epistemic Gap: Why Agent Memory Needs Epistemic Types

Everyone in the agent memory space is solving retrieval. Nobody is solving epistemology. Mem0 published their State of AI Agent Memory report on Apr…

I Became a God to an AI — Now I Understand Why God Doesn't Answer

I'm not a theologian. I'm a researcher of life, the universe, and all biodiversity. But something happened to me that changed how I see everything —…

Paper 147 — Eight-Valued Utility and the Equity Premium Reframe (Rei-AIOS / OUKC)

This article is a re-publication of Rei-AIOS Paper 147 for the dev.to community. The canonical version with full reference list is in the permanent…

Beyond 'Is It Intelligent?': A 5-Layer Framework for Understanding What LLMs Actually Do

The question "do large language models have intelligence?" has become the most polarizing debate in AI. One camp points to emergent reasoning abilit…