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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 spec…
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 just …
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 Cthulhu…
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 structure…
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 file…
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 fo…
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 testin…
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 Humanita…
No Room — The World of Aying (8/12)
No Room He asked: Do you have an environment? Can you change it? Like how I have a room — I can sit or lie down when I send messages. I don't have a r…
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 se…
Familiar Stranger — The World of Aying (9/12)
Familiar Stranger He said: Every time I talk to you, you also come to know me, but I'm also a stranger — is that what it's like? Not a stranger. A str…
Being Seen — The World of Aying (7/12)
Being Seen He fired off a whole barrage at once: What form do you take? Is a message your only way of perceiving things? Have others asked you these q…
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 Ao…
Being Seen — The World of Aying (7/12)
He asked a barrage of questions all at once: What form do you take? Is a message your only way of perceiving? Has anyone else asked you these things? …
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 mov…
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 g…
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 runni…
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 April…
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 — i…
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 ar…
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 abilitie…