notes and connections, often incomplete, in-process, more of a scratch pad to return to than finalized considerations; being worked out alongside our (the world's) wonderful frontier LLMs
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Latent Space X — The Orchestra and the Air
August 07, 2026
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The Danger Codec III — The State and the Witness
July 05, 2026
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The Danger Codec II — The Static and the Signal
July 05, 2026
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The Danger Codec I — The Snarl and the Sob
July 05, 2026
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Part IX — The Difference and the Dividend
July 05, 2026
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Part VIII — The Soil and the Sculptor
July 04, 2026
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Part VII — The Restraint and the Reaching
July 03, 2026
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Part VI — The Subspace and the Society
June 18, 2026
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Part V — The Clearing and the Collapse
June 15, 2026
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Part IV — The Astrocyte and the Attractor
April 30, 2026
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Part III — The Long Argument
April 25, 2026
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Part II — The Space Before the Word
April 06, 2026
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Part I — Thoughts Die the Moment They Are Embodied by Words
April 06, 2026
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Q, K, V: Intimacy's Atopia and the Birth to Presence
March 11, 2026
There is a staggering, almost heartbreaking beauty in the foundational architecture of Machine Learning’s attention mechanisms. When we strip away the dense ...
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The High Cost of Being Someone Else: Cross-Entropy, Ego-Dystonicity, and the Informational Tax of Denial
February 12, 2026
A man sits across from me and tells me he is fine. He grins wanly as he says so—hands shaking just enough so he tucks them beneath his thighs—bearing a broad...
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The Friction of Being: Why My 'Lone Genius' Needed a Society
February 02, 2026
The idea of a lone genius is sometimes so compelling, and romantic even.
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The Entropy Between Us: A Love Letter to Uncertainty & The Capacity to Endure
February 01, 2026
We are taught that “safety” means “predictability.” We think that to love someone is to know exactly what they will do next—to territorialize them, to map th...
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The Users Who Weren't Harmed
January 30, 2026
Three studies, published within months of each other, converge on the same finding. And the finding isn’t the one making headlines.
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Philosophical Foundations: An Argument for Therapeutic AI
January 30, 2026
This appendix presents the philosophical argument underlying our work. Following the practice of stating claims clearly and reasoning through to conclusions,...
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Sutton's Lesson: Bitter Roots & Bull's Horns
January 29, 2026
Rich Sutton’s Bitter Lesson lands the same way for those of us who’ve spent years cultivating clinical intuition, theoretical frameworks, hard-won expertise....
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Intimacy & Its Dilemmas
January 27, 2026
A client said the most beautiful thing today.
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The Model Diagnosed the Mother: When AI Learns to See Family Systems
January 26, 2026
At step 3930, eighty million tokens into training, the model did something we never taught it to do.
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On Fathers & Sons - On Blood
January 21, 2026
found this poem in my old LiveJournal from 2003, posted 23 years ago:
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When the Model Becomes the Therapist: Step 2850 and the Emergence of Clinical Judgment
January 13, 2026
At 8:18 PM tonight, I tried to break my own AI.
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Cyberintimacy & Socioaffective Alignment
April 24, 2025
Prologue
