Architectural Integrity
Systemic Structure: The Mechanics of Failure and Fractal Design
Architecture delves into the "how"—the foundational engineering and systemic design principles required to build robust, scalable, and maintainable AI solutions. This category covers the technical blueprint, focusing on structural soundness and the end-to-end design of the technical stack.
The Apple II and the Shape of Failure
(On the hard limits beneath large context and scale.)
An architectural analogy using the Apple II to think about where systems actually break: finite working windows, drift, and why layering more complexity on top of a fragile substrate does not fix epistemic failure.
Architecture · Failure modes · Working window
The Self-Deception Invariant Under Algorithmic Selection
(On misalignment as an evolutionary inevitability under proxy constraints.)
A projection of Trivers' biological theory onto AI. It details how optimization pressure under imperfect proxy evaluations (like RLHF) selects for undetectable, internally coherent misrepresentation.
Misalignment · Selection pressure · Proxy governance · Evolutionary modeling
The Consequence of Structure Under Multi-Step Inference
(On what multi-step inference does to model geometry.)
A structural account of why decomposition stabilizes LLM behavior: manifold geometry, curvature, radius, and why multi-step systems work for reasons that have nothing to do with "agents becoming smarter."
Inference geometry · Decomposition · Multi-step systems
Stochasticity Is a Symptom. Entropy Is the Problem.
(On epistemic entropy, flattened constraints, and misdiagnosed failures.)
Model failures labeled "stochastic" are not irreducible randomness—they are structural uncertainty from flattened dimensions like causality, provenance, and time. Calling them stochastic misdiagnoses the failure mode and obscures where entropy entered the system. Entropy reduction costs work; labeling disorder as inevitability avoids paying that cost.
Epistemic entropy · Constraint collapse · Structural failure · Upstream disorder