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Confessions of a Lock
Ordinary Language, Poetic Jailbreaks, and the Non-Closure of Language-Model Safety
Academic Essays
& Research Papers
I write and publish academic papers across the philosophy of AI, safety, physics, economics, language, mind, and phenomenology. Each links to its full text on PhilPapers. For shorter summaries and reflections, see the blog.
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Three Walls
A Formal Limit on the Computational Paradigm, Its World Models, and Their Deployment
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The Conditions of the Invisible Hand
A Cybernetic-Philosophical Diagnosis of the Two Dominant Economic Architectures (Book)
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Conditions of the Invisible Hand III
The Horizon Mismatch
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The Impossible Message
Embodiment, Form of Life, and the Ontological Limits of Interstellar Communication
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How Language Models Work
A Multi-Register Investigation
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Why Language Models Work
A Philosophical Investigation
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The Withdrawn Structure
Enabling Conditions, Diagnostic Seams, and the Ontology of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect
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Drawing Lions Without Lions
Bestiary, Schema, and the Structure of Mis-Seeing
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The Metabolic A Priori
Field Ontology, Active Forgetting, and the Structural Limits of Computation
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The Generative Abyss
Enabling Withdrawal and the Structure of Paradigm Transition in Physics and Mathematics
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The Original Wound
Magnetism and the Structural Limits of Mechanistic Physics
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The Conditions of the Invisible Hand II
The Ricardian Inversion
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The Conditions of the Invisible Hand I
Free Markets Without Markets
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The Invisible Fire
Alchemy and the Birth of Newtonian Physics
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Syntax Without Semantics
V-JEPA 2 and String Theory as Isomorphic Failures of the Mechanistic Paradigm
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The Phonemic Flesh
A Phenomenological Analysis of Italian Brainrot
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World Models Without Worlds
An Analytic Critique of Understanding Claims in Self-Supervised Video Learning
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The Garden Where Nothing Grows
Elimination Without Transformation and the Architecture of Collapse in Marvel's Avengers
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Trauma, Memory, and Metabolic Transformation
A Phenomenological Framework for Clinical Practice
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The Alignment Tax
How Safety Training Creates Operationally Lethal AI Systems
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Paradox as Diagnosis
Foundational Contradictions from Physics to Artificial Intelligence
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The End of the Computational Mind
Ontology, Autopoiesis, and Artificial Cognition
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The Laundering of Understanding
How V-JEPA 2 Smuggles Human Carving Into Claims of Machine World-Modelling
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The Monster You Must Create to Defeat
A Phenomenological Analysis of Ontological Conflict in Tite Kubo's Bleach
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The View from Nowhere, Which Is Also Somewhere
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The Birth Canal
Systems, Singularity, and the Ontology of Renewal
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No Red Lines
The Impossibility of Formal Safety Guarantees in Large Language Models
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Man and His Metaphors Part II
From Escapement to Algorithm: Five Artifacts That Became Reality
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Man and His Metaphors Part I
The Archival Prison: How Writing Forged the Interior Mind
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To Begin Anew
Natality, Forgetting, and the Politics of Beginning
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L'Avenir and Absolute Forgetting
When Life Refuses to Be Reduced
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The Forgetting That Remembers
Abgrund, Membrure, and the Medium of Resistance
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The Memory That Forgets to Forget
Memory as Reconfiguration
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The Misnomer of 'Natural Language Processing'
A Critical Examination of Computational Linguistics' Foundational Category Errors
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From Cybernetics to Chiasm to Category
The Evolution of Organizational Ontology
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Language as Technogenesis
From Gesture to Algorithm
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The Threshold of Pursuit
Displaced Presence in Zeno's Achilles Paradox?