Franklin Baldo

Notes on AI, law, and systems.

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If a person is a shortcut and not a load-bearing brick, what stops a person from having two counterparts?

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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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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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A state attorney's journey into AI agents: delegation, memory, and what changes when the clerk never forgets — seen from someone who builds at night and argues in court by day.

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Executed in Counterparts

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