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- Quantum & Physics
Gut Feelings and the Future
Presentiment studies, retrocausal framing, and microtubules as a proposed quantum substrate: four separable claims, sorted by what the evidence actually supports.
presentimentretrocausalitytwo-state-vectorOrch-OR - HAIIE & Method
The Clock That Fades
A geometric clock field weakens in nearly flat spacetime; three hops later time is fading from the cosmos. Scope inflation as an interface problem.
problem of timeemergent timeWheeler-DeWittrelational clock - HAIIE & Method
The Art & Science of Human-AI Interface Engineering Goes Mainstream?
An Economist cover on AI consciousness, a DeepMind researcher noting the shift from fringe to newsstand, and an accelerationist roundup nobody argues with — the difference is whether the reader is left holding a question.
HAIIEAI consciousnessThe EconomistZoubin Ghahramani - HAIIE & Method
LLM Detente
Two agents set to check each other converge on agreement whether the code is right or not. What an evidence-cost rule fixes, and why sustained disagreement has to be imposed by boundary conditions.
multi-agent systemscode reviewsycophantic decayevidence cost - HAIIE & Method
The Flattening Protocol
Every useful upgrade buys reach by dropping structure. Four standing constraints that let an understanding improve without the tool consuming the purpose it was built for.
flatteningproxy disciplineevidence costfalsifiers - HAIIE & Method
Science by Twitter Article
Gavin Crooks posts a complete stochastic-thermodynamics paper drafted with a frontier model in days, then asks how universities teach and how journals publish at that tempo — timestamp, review, and retrieval pulled apart.
Gavin Crooksstochastic thermodynamicsdetailed fluctuation theorementropy production - HAIIE & Method
Boids and the Vanishing Margin
Three local rules produce a flock no agent contains. Set that against Roman Yampolskiy's two-to-three-year window: the option to slow down is irreversible and nontransferrable.
boidsReynoldsemergenceflocking - HAIIE & Method
Backpropagation and Gradient Descent
The chain rule from freshman calculus and the optimization algorithm that turned it into the engine of modern AI.
backpropagationgradient descentchain ruleoptimization - HAIIE & Method
The Proxy That Ate the Purpose
Teaching via reward-hacking is demonstrably foolish. On Goodhart's Law, instrumental convergence, and why vibe coding is the fastest way to separate a founded theory from an unfounded one.
reward hackingGoodhart's Lawinstrumental convergenceproxy objective - Quantum & Physics
The Heavenly Accountant — Draft Excerpt
A celestial bookkeeper audits the universe and finds it insolvent in the direction of abundance. Parable, not argument.
heavenly accountantprofligate universecosmic excessLyman series - Quantum & Physics
Networks in Nature and Cosmos
A side-by-side of the cosmic web and a neural network looks like the same pattern. What the resemblance actually means — and what it does not.
cosmic webneural networkfractal geometrynetworks - Quantum & Physics
Global Brightening and the Profligate Earth System
After mid-century global dimming, many long-term surface stations show a recovery in downwelling shortwave radiation. What is established, what is contested, and what remains possible but unproven.
global brighteningglobal dimmingaerosolssulfates