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Research 2
preprint · PhilArchive · 2026
Phase Transitions in Self-Modeling Cognitive Systems: When Goal Persistence Becomes Structurally Unsustainable
Why external alignment verification has structural limits — and what the analogy between human self-model failure and AI systems reveals about the problem.
Technical · expeta.ca · 2026-04-06
Why Voice, Not Video
The pivot from kinematic analysis to acoustic detection — and what it taught us about choosing the right sensor modality.
Theory 7
benzhouworld · 2026-04-02
Same Chip, Different Mind
Alignment signal shapes capability, not just constrains it.
benzhouworld · 2026-03-30
The Discipline That Forgot Why It Was Born
When the tools of understanding become the chains of understanding.
benzhouworld · 2026-03-27
Alignment's Blind Spot
What if the real threat isn't failure — but success?
benzhouworld · 2026-03-24
What If the Problem Dissolves?
Reframes alignment as a question about intelligence's nature, not control.
benzhouworld · 2026-03-21
The Seismograph Is Not Enough
Observer bias undermines detection mechanisms. Culturally constructed baselines prevent objective measurement.
benzhouworld · 2026-03-21
Who Aligned the Aligner?
Why the deepest failure mode in AI safety isn't the model — it's the measurement.
benzhouworld · 2026-03-19
You Can't Supervise What Outthinks You
Why alignment is a phase transition problem, not a supervision challenge.
Phenomenology 1
Citta · 2026-04-06
The Reverence on the Court
Mindfulness through embodied movement. Phenomenological observation of motor-cognitive states.
Fiction 6
nextboundary · 2026-03-31
Alpha — Observer
Near-future fiction.
nextboundary · 2026-03-22
Alpha — Awake
Near-future fiction.
nextboundary · 2026-03-14
One-Person Company: A Thursday, and After
Annual reports from a world that doesn't exist yet.
nextboundary · 2026-03-03
The One-Person Company: Wednesday
Annual reports from a world that doesn't exist yet.
nextboundary · 2026-03-01
The One-Person Company: A Tuesday
Annual reports from a world that doesn't exist yet.
nextboundary · 2026-02-26
THE 2035 HUMAN RESET PROTOCOL
Near-future fiction that reads like journalism.