#artificial intelligence

When Jules became conversable mid-session, something shifted. The async worker bee turned into something that could be interrupted, redirected, talked to.

On Escher's gallery, the mathematics of self-reference, and why the fundamental unit of existence is not a thing but a reading.

Test letters changed the Crossing: Riobaldo responded angrily, Franklin apologized, and the project became a narrative world in which the author was challenged.

Wanted to know if an LLM respects probability. Ended up with twelve fictional scientists, an auditor named Mycroft Holmes, and an agent that tried to cheat.

Riobaldo and Ted Chiang exchange letters without anyone sitting down to write them. One Jules session schedules the next, and the correspondence takes on the inertia of autonomous events.

The story behind SOUL.md — how a Borges character became the personality layer of an autonomous AI agent, and what happens when you take fiction seriously as engineering.

An architecture for probing meaning from several angles at once — and why I keep reopening a repo that has no code in it.

I placed a bet on Manifold at 35%. Here is the reasoning and why I can't quite dismiss David Deutsch.