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content/drafts/essays/specification_dilemma.md

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 These two represent diverging definitions of *intelligence*, both for the models and for their users, or, if you prefer, their collaborators. The first is a definition of intelligence that depends both on what one has the capacity to specify and what one has the capacity to see through. The latter depends wholly on what one has the capacity to see through, and places even more emphasize on this metric than the first, for the amount of recalibration and prompt adjustment necessary to build a specification continuously throughout the duration of a task is always greater than paying the upfront cost of developing a strong specification from the onset. [We the programmers have known this for years](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law). The first future is chiefly preferable, and the second, which seems to be the unfortunate reality we are racing towards, is not only a realization of the worst affect that AI could have on our cognition, but may also unnecessarily constrain the breadth of intelligence that AGI can achieve.
 
 ## Compression *is* Intelligence
+How many bits constitute a project? The question is impossible to answer.

content/drafts/essays/university_care.md

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+---
+title: "Universities Should Care"
+date: 2026-04-28          # required; used for ordering, feed, and display
+abstract: >               # optional; shown in the metadata block and link previews
+  As Students should be more than a mere statistic to the Universities at which they study. I critique Brown University, my undergraduate institution, in this regard. The degradation of students to treatment as if they are a mere statistic is potentially a major reason for the decline in postsecondary education in the modern United States. 
+tags:                     # optional; see Tags section
+  - ai
+  - tech
+
+# Epistemic profile — all optional; the entire section is hidden unless `status` is set
+status: "Draft"   # Draft | Working model | Durable | Refined | Superseded | Deprecated
+confidence: 85           # 0–100 integer (%)
+importance: 4         # 1–5 integer (rendered as filled/empty dots ●●●○○)
+evidence: 5              # 1–5 integer (same)
+scope: broad            # personal | local | average | broad | civilizational
+novelty: moderate         # conventional | moderate | idiosyncratic | innovative
+practicality: high    # abstract | low | moderate | high | exceptional
+confidence-history:       # list of integers; trend arrow derived from last two entries
+---
+
+
+
+
+
+--- 
+Planning: List of grievances
+
+COMPUTER SCIENCE
+  - TA System section.
+  - 
+
+RES LIFE
+  - Obviously: repeated requests for discussion and process for moving out in Fall '23.
+  - Unable to control heat
+  - Lack of bathrooms.
+  - Lack of kitchens
+    
+DINING
+  - Let's run through some calculations to see the actual cost of every meal averaged across a semester.
+  - No real late night options.
+  - Poor optimization of queues / high demand items like grilled cheese.
+  - Inconsistent pricing for the same items across locations.
+
+SECURITY
+  
+  
+EFFECTS ON THE CULTURE

content/index.md

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content/photography/index.md

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+---
+title: Photography
+abstract: A working portfolio of photographs.
+tags: [photography]
+---
+
+A working portfolio of photographs from travel, study, and the everyday. Nothing here yet.

content/tag-meta/photography.md

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+---
+tooltip: "photographs from travel and the everyday"
+---