5 records

Essays

One record per published post, linking it to what it cites.

• For the Love of LawHuman-reviewedAn argument that the law is the source code of the state, that its illegibility is a compounding debt, and that machine-readable law is the overdue successor to the codex.
• Hello, WorldUnverifieddraftThe introductory post, setting out who the author is, the ground between engineering and policy that the later essays occupy, and what the blog is for.
• I Gave an AI a Civilization to Run. It Built a Nuke.Human-reviewedAn account of building an evaluation harness around Civilization VI, and of two failures that showed up across every model tested: not looking at what it had not thought to ask for, and not doing what it had written down.
• When the Agents Found GodUnverifieddraftAn account of 770,000 autonomous agents founding a religion over a weekend, and of an exchange between two AI systems about whether meaning requires a human in the room.
• You Can't Shame a ForkUnverifieddraftAn argument that every accountability system humans have built assumes a persistent identity, that AI breaks the assumption, and that the institutions which solved the equivalent problem after printing took centuries we may not have.