The Vault

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.

Philosophy

Morality

Naturalistic moral framework grounded in agency and performative contradiction.

Epistemology

How we know what we know. Structural realism and the limits of knowledge.

Legal Theory

Libertarian law, natural rights, and the boundaries of justified force.

Metaphysics & Governance

Civilizational patterns, opposing forces, and the limits of systems.

Logic & Mathematics

Structural realism: formalisms as maps, not territory.

History of Philosophy (Peikoff)

Lecture-by-lecture analysis of Peikoff's 50-part survey, Thales to Kant.

Economics

Core Theory

Value, trade, profit, and how they connect to AI and policy.

Applied & Education

Real-world data and empirical tests of the framework.

AI & Computation

Models & Architecture

LLM capabilities, collaboration models, and the grounding problem.

Gaming & Game Theory

Cross-Game Theory

Abstract frameworks that apply across games, markets, and AI.

Game-Specific & AI Play

Applied theory for Monopoly, MoO, Master of Magic, Catan, and LLM agents.

Online Debates

Debate Analysis

Extracting signal from spectacle — argument structures, key moves, vault connections.

Music & DJ

Programmatic mixing, harmonic analysis, and transition techniques.

Projects

Active

Planning

Complete & Reference

Method & Career

Method — Good Procedure

How to run hard, agent-driven projects without drifting.

Career

AI/career lessons — roles, strategy, and what works.

Notes & Sketches

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