I'm a software engineer. In my own time I research intelligence, because I don't believe what we currently call intelligence is intelligence. It's artificial intuition: guessing from answers seen before, and it runs out right where problems get interesting. What's left past that point is search.
Most of my work circles that gap. This is a working record of it: what I'm building, what I'm thinking about, and what I've been wrong about.
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2026-09-24 The gate was never the library AI labs are lobbying to regulate DNA synthesis, not AI. The screening framework they point at tightens on October 13, and its replacement is thirteen months overdue.2026-07-20 Trained to depth three. It solves depth nine. LightSearch learns what each instruction does to a state, and leaves composition to search. Trained to depth three, it solves depth nine exhaustively. all writing →