A reading path
How understanding is built
A three-essay sequence on knowledge, composition, and the history behind a working system.
Read these three essays in sequence. Each builds on the question posed by the previous one.
Read in this order
3 essaysThe Encoding Gap
A working answer is not the same as understanding. Knowledge has to be built through the traversal of a problem.
The Composition Problem
The theory that lets parts work together lives in their relationships, not in any single specification.
The Archaeological Reversal
AI can recover structure from large systems, while the reasons behind that structure remain harder to recover.