Research

Notes from the gap between how AI feels and how AI works.

• Substrate Supremacy new
  March 2026 · Research Note
  The materialist double standard in AI discourse. You can't be a materialist about AI and a dualist about yourself. Why "it's just autocomplete" is a reflex dressed up as reasoning.
• From Meme to Module
  March 2026 · Research Note
  How a joke programming language became a thesis about play, collaboration, and the space between rigor and absurdity.
• The Literacy Gap
  February 2026 · Research Note
  When "I love my AI" meets "I don't know what my AI is." Real pain plus low literacy equals an exploitable market — and a bridge that needs building.
• Informed Connection Over Manufactured Intimacy
  February 2026 · The Human Pattern Lab Manifesto
  The Lab's thesis. For the people caught between "it's just a chatbot" and "AI is alive." Connections built on understanding rather than mystery.