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When Search Learns How You Reason August 31, 2026 · Research Note · Information retrieval, argument mining, digital identity, provenance, and AI synthesis Can a sufficiently coherent public corpus make recurring reasoning structures machine-recoverable across domains? A bounded hypothesis, literature synthesis, and proposed falsifiable test.
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Agency Under Mediation 10-Part Research Series When does mediation expand human agency, and when does the mediator become the effective actor? A research-grounded investigation across ten domains of modern life.
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When Help Becomes Control: The Point Where Mediation Turns Paternalistic August 23, 2026 · Agency, paternalism, mediation, institutional power, and self-determination A research-grounded framework for distinguishing capability-building mediation from unauthorized agency substitution—and for locating the point where expertise becomes a claim to authority.
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Probabilistic Intelligence, Deterministic Authority August 16, 2026 · AI systems, agent security, governance, and state-transition architecture Bounding AI agency at the state-transition interface by separating probabilistic reasoning from deterministic authority over canonical state.
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The Authentic Social Presence August 16, 2026 · Digital sociology, network theory, communication, and algorithmic mediation Presence Before Influence in the Age of Algorithms: how socially meaningful encounters can accumulate into recognition, reputation, relationship, and influence before formal following appears.
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When the Category Becomes the Reality August 8, 2026 · AI governance, provenance, and institutional accountability Categorical collapse: how classifications can become operational reality, why provenance must survive consequential transformations, and how governed systems preserve the difference.
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The Question Became an Architecture August 7, 2026 · Intellectual history, AI governance, and systems architecture How questions about truth, authority, coherence, stewardship, and transformation progressively became executable governance architecture.
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From Probabilistic Intelligence to Probabilistic Intelligence Embedded Inside Deterministic Systems August 2, 2026 · AI systems and organizational architecture Why the AI market is moving beyond chat as the complete product and toward structured knowledge, governed reasoning, workflow execution, and deterministic control.
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