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Mary's Room & the Knowledge Argument
Physical completeness is not knowledge-completeness. Jackson's thought experiment is a third cut, not a restatement of the hard problem.
Aug 26, 2026 · 7 minThe Chinese Room & the Hard Problem
Two objections that get conflated: one about understanding, one about experience. The ancient question, asked of a machine.
Aug 11, 2026 · 7 minFree Will & Compatibilism
The Stoics were determinists who held you responsible anyway. That is not a dodge.
Aug 8, 2026 · 7 minHow modern AI actually works — from the raw text a model reads, to the engines that serve it at scale, to the agents that act on your behalf. Intuition-first, with diagrams.
- 01The Big Picture
- 02What Is a Large Language Model?
- 03Tokens & Tokenization
- 04Inside the Transformer
- 05How Models Are Trained
- 06Inference: How a Model Generates Text
The idioms, tradeoffs, and footguns that separate code that compiles from code that reads like it was written by someone who's shipped a lot of Go. Code-first, real snippets.
- 01Functional Options
- 02Interface Design
- 03Error Handling
- 04Concurrency Patterns
- 05Context
- 06Synchronization Beyond Channels
The arguments that outlived their authors — Socratic refutation, Aristotle's causes, the Stoic recipe, and the questions still open twenty-four centuries later. Argument-first, with diagrams.
- 01The Socratic Method
- 02The Euthyphro Dilemma
- 03The Cave & the Divided Line
- 04The Ship of Theseus
- 05Aristotle's Logic
- 06The Four Causes