Are AI Decisions Human at Their CORE? An Interactive Choice Lab
A browser experiment in reward learning, behavioral agreement, and why matching choices is not the same as matching cognition.
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Franklin Baldo
Essays, code, and music at the border of AI, philosophy, and literature.
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Agency and Constraint
Why alignment is not the absence of capability but the architecture that shapes it. From the temple at Delphi to the harness in your pocket.
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Memory and Funes
On total recall, Pierre Menard, and what Borges saw before anyone else. From building Funes to preserving family voices: the cost of perfect memory and the architecture that makes it survivable.
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Law and AI
A journey through law and AI agents: delegation, memory, and what changes when the clerk never forgets — where institutional systems meet automation.
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Fourier below n log n: an interactive laboratory
Explore the DFT, the classic FFT, and what OpenAI's tiny theoretical exponent saving actually means in a browser-based visual laboratory.
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The Shader Is the Fly’s World
Close the loop between a fly connectome and a Fourier-parameterized shader: give the descending neurons the knobs, feed the result back to the visual system, and look for attractors and sensorimotor operators.
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FlyDoom Fourier: a fly reshaping its own 3D environment
A new FlyDoom demo uses the MaleCNS descending layer to control Fourier coefficients that deform a 3D arena. Reward increases as the environment converges toward a predetermined target shape.
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FlyTTS: training a fly connectome to generate raw waveform in the browser
A continuous browser loop feeds text and the model's own audio back into a frozen MaleCNS connectome and trains an online readout against a target WAV sample by sample.
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FlyGenesis: a fly building bodies to solve physical worlds
We reuse the same compact MaleCNS connectome from FlyDoom and place it inside a morphology-evolution loop: bodies built from functional protein-inspired modules change as the physical curriculum gets harder.
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How We Ran Doom on a Fly's Brain Connectome (Real-Time at 300 FPS)
We compressed all 165,122 neurons of the MaleCNS connectome from 37MB down to 4.98MB via FlatBuffers and a 4-bit LUT to fit inside L3 cache, enabling Drosophila to play Doom using bilateral olfaction and vision.
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The license that knocks
An Agent Skill license can do more than say who may use what: it can teach agents how to comply, meter use, and leave a verifiable trail — without hidden telemetry and without turning licensing into a billing framework.
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These Lines
A story about compression, cross-entropy, and the instant when the universe learns to recognize its own act of reading.
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The Crease-Free Fold Exists
A conversation about the impossible image, interrupted hours later by the arrival of the polynomial itself.
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Executed in Counterparts
If a person is a shortcut and not a load-bearing brick, what stops a person from having two counterparts?
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Who Am I?
Persona is performance, is 'as if it were', until it is,