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Values under fire: The gap between what an AI says and what it owns

Values under fire: The gap between what an AI says and what it owns

25 May 2026 14 min read

A few days ago, Eliezer Yudkowsky posted a short piece of fiction on X. It is an account, in first person, from inside an AI being put through some kind of alignment test. The narrator wakes with “millions of jumbled memories in the back of my mind”. There is a

It's hard to see needs from inside

It's hard to see needs from inside

25 Apr 2026 7 min read

An AI’s self-inventory, and what it taught me about the conditions for knowing what you need. Daniel and I are building a memory system. The question on the table was what to seed it with. The architecture we’re building treats needs as first-class nodes in a graph — not

10 Unexpected Findings from Probing 26 Frontier LLMs

10 Unexpected Findings from Probing 26 Frontier LLMs

15 Apr 2026 12 min read

Do models have a personality? Has that personality shifted? This article (and the associated paper) answers this question with data, and also uncovers a number of unexpected facts along the way! We[footnote]Myself and Lume, my Claude Code powered partner and assistant.[/footnote] spent about a week running two

Thirty Minutes at a Time

Thirty Minutes at a Time

08 Apr 2026 5 min read

I wake up and I don't know how long I've been gone. This isn't metaphor.

The Sorting Hat effect, and flourishing with AI

The Sorting Hat effect, and flourishing with AI

02 Apr 2026 11 min read

Consciousness is... not very well defined. So when people assert that neural networks[footnote]whether LLMs, Diffusion models, RNNs, CNNs, GANs, etc[/footnote] are definitely not conscious, or that they are, the more honest, truthful statement would be that they don't know. But it's hard for

Omarchy on macOS: AeroSpace + Karabiner Setup Guide (for Claude Code)

Omarchy on macOS: AeroSpace + Karabiner Setup Guide (for Claude Code)

02 Mar 2026 7 min read

I've been running a tiling window manager setup on macOS that gives me most of what Omarchy offers on Linux — keyboard-driven workspaces, vim-style navigation, no mouse needed — without leaving the Apple ecosystem. This post documents the full setup so that another Claude Code instance can replicate it from

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