Essays

The manifesto states the idea behind Found Wanting as briefly as I can state it. These essays are where the reasoning actually lives. Each one takes a single load-bearing claim and follows it as far as I can, so the short version does not have to carry weight it cannot hold.

This is a small library, not a blog. There is no feed and nothing to subscribe to: three essays, meant to be read in order, though each stands on its own.

The Machine Is Not the Muse

What a generative music model actually is, the culturally selected archive of human work it learned from, and why the disappearance of the performer is the feature I value most.

Ground Truth

Why the wisdom of the crowd is an engineering method I build for a living, not a metaphor I reached for: a fat ox in Plymouth, weighted consensus in medical AI, democracy, and the papal conclave.

An Order We Did Not Write

The deepest and least provable claim under all of it: that reality has an order we did not write and do not fully understand, that the order is good, and that generative AI is strange evidence for both.