Theory

Theory

Foundational concepts in information theory, compression, and epistemic integrity.

Naming is Not Explaining

Two documents crossed my desk this month, in completely different areas, both making the same mistake. The first is mundane: the vocabulary security people use to talk about AI systems. "The model

In the Absence of Reason

There is a pattern I keep running into. I’ve implied it and written around it, but it is time to be more direct. A researcher observes a behavioral output in an AI

The Wrong Benchmark

What AI Governance Gets Wrong Before It Gets Anything Right AI governance discourse has a baseline problem, and it is prior to both the technical problems and the regulatory problems; it is epistemic.

They’re Not Interchangeable

There is a confusion running through AI governance discourse that rarely gets named directly, possibly because naming it implicates most of the frameworks currently in use. The confusion is about what kind of

The Edge of the Interesting Thing

A recent study tested four AI models on a validated paradigm for moral sensitivity, presenting them with three categories of ethical tradeoffs: routine (two secular values), taboo (a sacred value against a secular