Essays

Essays and notes on AI, systems, research ideas, and the strange border between technology and human experience.

  1. Ink-on-bone engraving: a spiral of rock terraces rising from a quartz crystal through a plant, a butterfly, and a wolf resting by a fire, up to the outline of a seated human rendered as a neural-network wireframe, with a school of fish below and a single indigo signal threading the whole climb.

    June 25, 2026 · 16 min read

    We Scaled the Ape and Expected the Human: Theosophy's developmental cosmology as a research program for machine learning

    A speculative essay on reading the journey of the monad as a secular research program for machine learning: faculty order, relational identity, lifecycle consolidation, and the mistake of expecting a self to appear from scale alone.

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  2. Ink-on-bone engraving: a detailed biological cell on the left, with DNA and Y-shaped antibodies, morphing rightward through an organic tangle of nodes into the clean ordered layers of a deep neural network, a single indigo signal threading from tissue to network.

    May 26, 2026 · 4 min read

    A Cell Is a Neural Network

    Reading biology as deep learning: immune systems as fine-tuning, allergies as overfitting, autoimmune disease as alignment failure, DNA as compressed weights.

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