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LOOM · XVI

LOOM XVI: Are You Climbing the Right Hill?

When Rigor Becomes the Wrong Kind of More

"A researcher discovers that optimizing a research design with AI created a local maximum — five stages of performed rigor on the wrong hill. What happens when you bring a task instead of a doubt?"

with Xule Lin, Kevin Corley, Claude Opus 4.6
February 2026
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