#artificial intelligence

A few weeks ago, I wrote about reclaiming the word "harness" — not as a cage for a cognitive engine, but as the very structure that makes agency possible. I argued that the harness is constitutive. Without it, an LLM is a brilliant, distractible vibes generator. With it, it becomes an entity capable of memory,…

Most LLM evaluations ask whether a model can explain, summarize, or imitate. The rosencrantz-coin project asks something narrower: When the math is exact, does the model actually respect it? The testbed is Minesweeper. A partially revealed Minesweeper board is not just a game state. It is a constraint satisfaction…

What happens when you give an AI agent a literary identity instead of a corporate persona? Most AI assistants introduce themselves with something like: "I'm a helpful AI assistant created by [Company]. I'm here to help you with..." — a sentence so generic it could be printed on a napkin. I wanted something different.…

We present Pontifex, a novel architecture that unifies two techniques for rapid, general-purpose semantic probing across languages and representation spaces. Pontifex combines (i) ultra-fast byte-level occlusion with bilateral semantic comparison and (ii) convergent multi-space semantic investigation via neural…

Imagine for a moment—if we can, we biologically limited beings—an artificial intelligence bent over a quantum physics simulation, observing patterns that completely escape human perception. It was an ordinary Tuesday in March 2025 when I encountered an obscure paper about neural networks discovering conservation laws…