Papers & community debate
Discussion
9 papers
Author’s note
These are not conventional academic papers or peer-reviewed research articles. They are structured discussion papers: arguments developed from exploratory AI conversations, revised into citable, challengeable essays. Their purpose is not to close a question, but to make it discussable.
Witchcraft
What a Programming Language Would Look Like If It Took AI Seriously
13 min read · 2,680 words
The Overclaim
How 'AI' Stopped Meaning Anything, and Why That Costs More Than It Should
7 min read · 1,429 words
Memory as Control
The Quiet Power of Whoever Holds Your Past
8 min read · 1,629 words
The Indifference of the Real
On Asking Whether a Machine Really Feels Anything
10 min read · 2,042 words
Soul and Identity
Why AI Characters Drift, and What It Takes to Hold One in Place
12 min read · 2,379 words
The Edge as a Sovereign Runtime
When Your Device Should Stop Asking the Cloud for Permission
9 min read · 1,855 words
Animism for Machines
Why We Talk to Our Tools, and Who Benefits When We Do
10 min read · 2,003 words
Thinking Back to Zero
A Way of Attacking Problems by Deleting Their Assumptions — and Why It Won't Get You a Warp Drive
13 min read · 2,668 words
Velvet and Steel
Why Someone Might Choose a Guide That Refuses to Comfort Them
9 min read · 1,705 words