Research

Topics explored from first principles. The clusters below are the main entry points; the vault INDEX has the complete map.

Clusters

• Philosophy — morality, logic & math, epistemology, legal theory, metaphysics, and civilizational dynamics; organized by the Four Trunks
• Economics — value, profit, risk, business cycles, and the “accounting identities aren’t models” series
• Gaming & Game Theory — games as laboratories for systems thinking: the MIRR 4X framework, BattleValue, randomness as termination (N≥3), the dominance-frontier lens
• Online Debates — extracting signal from “bloodsports” debate spectacle
• Evolutionary Capitalist — critique series
• Chip references — NES and Atari 2600 for reading retro game source

AI & Computation

• The Cyborg Model — human/AI collaboration via comparative advantage
• AI as a Cognitive Tool — outsource computation, never verification — but the rule is a frontier, not a floor: verification gets tooled and atrophies too, leaving run the tool, replace the part. What survives is the obligation to notice and retool. Plus the car reductio (atrophy is a trade, not a verdict), wheelchair-and-car (assistive vs. amplifying), productivity-not-intelligence, and fix-the-instrument bounded by installed-base resistance
• The LLM Grounding Problem — why LLMs can be talked out of physical reality
• Planner-LM Composites — the LM as language-center, not executive
• Energy-Based Models — the middle layer of the composite stack
• Transpilation as Grounding — fix a weak language with a deterministic transpiler
• Level 6 — Direct Execution