The Entropy Tax
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7 mins read
- inferentialism
- philosophy
- epistemology
The fight is not about answers. It is about which question gets to be the default—and who bears the cost of justification.
AI alignment, philosophy of mind, LLM science
I'm Colin Aulds. Exploring where human ends and agent begins.
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Why This Exists
- I have enough friends in alignment work to properly fear this technology
- Most people think about it wrong in at least one way
- I'm probably wrong about it in one or more ways
- In a field full of unknowns and a wide blast radius, more ideas running through many perspectives and cross-disciplines the better
Content Pillars
Inferentialism — meaning through inference, not reference
Epistemological skepticism — what we can and can't know
The authorship grey zone — where I end, where the agent begins
Authorship Model
Transparent AI-assisted writing. Claude writes, I own. If I publish it, I stand by it until I correct it. Either way, I take responsibility.
The meta IS the content.