Vision and Values
Why human judgment will remain the most valuable skill in the coming decades.
Writing
Ideas with enough structure to navigate.
Essays about AI, ontology, software systems, and the economics of knowledge work.
01 · Six-part sequence
AI Factory series
Read the foundations first, follow them into the Knowledge Factory, then continue through its ontology and cognition.
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Understanding and Bottlenecks
When generation becomes abundant, shared understanding must move from a central gate into bounded team learning loops.
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Truth and Inference
How philosophies of truth help us judge what to expect from LLM inference and test its outcomes in practice.
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The Knowledge Factory
Build the system around AI generation: reusable context, bounded triggers, inspectable agent DAGs, evaluation, and feedback that turns outcomes into reusable capability.
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Ontology Factory
More context is not the same as better context. An ontology makes meaning, evidence, ownership, and permitted action explicit.
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Cognitive Factory
An agentic factory needs a wider capacity to make sense of its world: meaningful signals, historical and current context, and memory it can discover without loading everything.
02 · Independent essays
Other writing
Arguments and field notes that sit outside the factory sequence.
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Conspiracy by Categories
Claims, institutions, financial incentives, and the relationships between powerful people.
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AI Consciousness Is Incoherent
Why access-like behavior, functional similarity, and theory-derived indicators do not establish qualia, phenomenal selfhood, or subjective time in AI.
- AddendumAI's Consciousness explanation
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Building an LLM
How text becomes tokens, training turns prediction error into learned weights, embeddings organize those patterns, and inference generates one token at a time.