Knowledge, projects, and research — Chris Isaacson
A personal knowledge system built from first principles
This vault tracks projects, research, and notes across economics, philosophy, AI, music, and game theory. Topics are interconnected — chords of the same theme.
Naturalistic moral framework grounded in agency and performative contradiction.
How we know what we know. Structural realism and the limits of knowledge.
Libertarian law, natural rights, and the boundaries of justified force.
Civilizational patterns, opposing forces, and the limits of systems.
Structural realism: formalisms as maps, not territory.
Lecture-by-lecture analysis of Peikoff's 50-part survey, Thales to Kant.
Value, trade, profit, and how they connect to AI and policy.
Real-world data and empirical tests of the framework.
LLM capabilities, collaboration models, and the grounding problem.
Abstract frameworks that apply across games, markets, and AI.
Applied theory for Monopoly, MoO, Master of Magic, Catan, and LLM agents.
Extracting signal from spectacle — argument structures, key moves, vault connections.
Programmatic mixing, harmonic analysis, and transition techniques.
How to run hard, agent-driven projects without drifting.
AI/career lessons — roles, strategy, and what works.
Words of Wisdom — hard-won tidbits and calls to action
The Limits of Utopia — defense of markets, risk, and human nature
Conservation of Complexity — cross-domain pattern: Shannon, Gödel, Mises, Montañez
Conspiracy & Pre-Crime — the breakable-chain test for justified intervention
Gödel Against Himself — the Vault's reading of incompleteness vs Gödel's own
Hayek vs Mises — two critiques of central planning; AI addresses one, not the other
Working With Claude — device setup, tips, and session history