Essays

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E/71B
The safe envelope for an AI agent must narrow as its capability grows
Deployment patterns widen an agent’s reach as it improves, assuming capability and trustworthiness rise together. On why that is backwards, and on the containment that buying an agent maximum flexibility actually costs.
E/2D8
The shell needs a separation of concerns
One program reads the text, expands it, decides what it may do, and runs it, with no boundary between any of those jobs. On separating them, and on the interface that appears where the seam is cut.
E/3C7
Bell Labs was four structural conditions, and it could not have kept them
The mood is usually remembered as a temperament. It was manufactured, the instruments can be listed, and the fourth one was imposed by a government rather than chosen.

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E/C96
A format that cannot store noise
The working thesis behind wvf: a storage format that refuses noise structurally, before judgment.