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Short observations on AI, Knowledge Architecture, organizational systems, technology, and the strange paths that connect them.

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Soldiers helping one another across a military confidence course while a luminous artificial intelligence network observes their cooperation
4 min read

The Foundation of Intelligence

We assume that a sufficiently intelligent AGI will decide humanity is a threat. But cooperation under pressure is not simply morality. It may be one of the foundations of intelligence itself.

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A human operator controlling an AI system like a marionette above the words Who Really Did It?
5 min read

Did AI Really Do It?

When an AI system behaves badly, we increasingly describe the AI as the actor. But the models, objectives, tools, permissions, compute, and environments were all supplied by humans.

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A conceptual image representing a career as a collection of connected experiences, projects, technologies, relationships, and forgotten paths.
3 min

You Need a Career Autobiography

Resumes compress careers until important experiences disappear. A career autobiography preserves the projects, failures, detours, technologies, and relationships that explain how you became who you are.

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A conceptual image representing protected organizational knowledge and the boundaries that determine what should and should not be exposed to AI systems.
2 min

Not Everything Belongs in the RAG

Enterprise AI projects often assume that more data creates a better system. Sometimes the right architecture depends on knowing what should not be indexed, embedded, retrieved, or exposed.

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