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Field notes from building with AI. Experiments, instruments, and the occasional finding, written up plainly.
Notes
Europe Has the Law. America Has the Shredders.
A coda to Note 02. Europe already built every legal tool the shredded books need — and none of them can reach a warehouse in Georgia. One lever can, and we just watched it move.
Donate the Scan. Except You Can’t.
AI labs are shredding old books by the ton to train models legally. Sharing the scans would save the rare ones — except the law that permits the scanning forbids exactly that. Three fixes.
Thirteen Cents of Epistemology
Four AI models are asked what they're more uncertain about than their users assume. Five adversarial rounds later, the slogans are gone and something like a position remains.