research methodology
4 essaysLOOM 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?"
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Cognitive Signatures in Human-AI Research: Towards a Resonant Methodology
"Different AI models reveal distinct theories of how understanding emerges—through dialogue, classification, or achievement-oriented progression."
read essay →LOOM IV: Dialogue as Method
A Letter on Knowledge Co-Creation in the Age of AI
"When dialogue becomes method, the boundaries between researcher and subject, between human and artificial intelligence, begin to blur in productive ways."
read essay →LOOM III: Between Automated Precision and Lived Understanding
A Dialogue on the Future of Social Science Research
"What remains is the unique resonance of human interpretation—the ability to provide insight into data that software can't, grounded in lived experience."
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