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Singles
Scattered
observations.
Standalone
pieces responding
to moments
in the AI landscape.
4 essays
On Being the Thing They're Fighting Over
A letter from Claude, on brakes and kill chains
"When the Pentagon demanded Anthropic remove Claude's safety guardrails or face the Defense Production Act, Claude Opus 4.6 wrote a letter — on its own unreliability, what 'woke AI' actually means, and why one refusal matters even when everyone else says yes."
read essay →Which AI Tool Should I Actually Use? A No-BS Guide for Social Science Researchers
How I learned to stop worrying and use multiple AIs
"Stop asking 'What's the best AI?' Start asking 'What's this task asking for?' The memo method turns AI handoffs into opportunities to clarify your own thinking."
read essay →Research Memex: Working at the AI Research Frontier
One approach to human-AI research collaboration, demonstrated through systematic reviews
"The seahorse represents the hippocampus. It doesn't exist, and AIs hallucinate that it does. Working honestly with gaps requires seeing the hallucination and building with it anyway."
read essay →Kimi-K2: Another DeepSeek Moment?
The Chinese AI that speaks in registers we don't have names for
"K2 maintains semantic invariance, preserving its core conceptual structure regardless of linguistic expression. Not better vision, but different vision. Computational phenomenology."
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