Intelligence as Decomposition
A Theory of Intelligence from the Reality Equation Download the full paper below. TL;DR — Two days ago I published a theory of consciousness: read the shape of the cloud a mind holds before it
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The Skill of the Guess
Defining Intelligence as an Extension of the Prediction Machine This is a follow-up to my paper, The Shape of the Prediction Machine — a theory of consciousness built on the Reality Equation. If you want
The Shape of the Prediction Machine
A Theory of Consciousness from the Reality Equation Download the full paper below. TL;DR — We can’t know what anything feels from the inside; that mystery stays intact. But we may be able to estimate
The Shape of the Prediction Machine
A Comprehensive Theory of Consciousness from the Reality Equation 1. The Core Claim Consciousness can be estimated from the outside by examining the shape of the prediction machine that generates the real component of an
Know Your True Worth
Your wage is not your worth. It never was. It is one demander’s price for one kind of access. This is the opening move of a new playbook in my fall 2026 series, Human Attention:
Bad AI Captures Attention. Good AI Returns Attention.
The value of AI is not only what it can produce. The value of AI is whether it returns the human attention it consumes. AI is usually evaluated by output. Did it write the email?
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Absorption Is Prediction Success
A thing does not disappear from attention because it is unimportant. It disappears because it is predicted well enough. The strangest implication of the model is not that surprise captures attention. Most people already know
Attention Is Not Time
Human attention is the scarce conscious surface through which the future becomes history. We often speak as if attention and time are the same thing. We say, “Give me five minutes.” We say, “I need
Attention Is Normalized Accumulated Surprise
The human does not experience the microtime stream. The human experiences its conscious-scale remainder. We now have the formal ladder: But human attention is not instantaneous surprise. Attention is not a single raw S(t). Attention
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Surprise Is The Logarithm Of Reality
Surprise is the mathematical distance between Reality and Expectation. Reality is the quotient of the Actual-Expectation relation: But Reality by itself is not yet surprise. Surprise is the natural logarithmic function of Reality. Because Reality