Epistemology

Against Method

Notes

Epistemological anarchism. The strongest critique of scientific method.

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Notes

Falsificationism as the demarcation of science. Foundational epistemology.

The Map and the Territory: Why Metrics Miss Meaning

Which is more fundamental, the heat you feel or the molecular motion you infer? Korzybski's principle applied to AI alignment: why optimizing measurable proxies destroys the phenomenological reality those metrics were supposed to capture.

Science as Verifiable Search

Science is search through hypothesis space. Intelligence prunes; testing provides signal. Synthetic worlds could accelerate the loop.

Uses and limits of abstractions

Abstractions let us reason about complex systems despite our cognitive limits. But some systems resist compression entirely.

The Four Consciousness-Architectures: Why One Perspective Is Blindness

How The Call of Asheron uses four archetypal consciousness-types to explore the limits of any single perspective and the necessity of cognitive diversity for perceiving reality.