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Epistemic Voids

    Gaps in AI discourse—
        facades,
            fallacies,
                false ceilings.

    A critique of hollow reasoning.
3 essays
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Epistemic Voids

Epistemic Voids #3: Mechanism Literalism

Why 'Just Next-Token Prediction' Is the New 'Just Price Signals'

"The word that does the work The itch about mistakes often starts with the word just. Consider these claims: Markets are just price signals. Firms are just contracts. Each "just" performs something akin to mistaking the mechanism for the phe..."

with Xule Lin, Claude
December 2025
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Epistemic Voids

Epistemic Voids #2: Showroom Fallacy

Confusing curation for capacity

"The phrase that stopped me: "The only thing you can do is prompt it.""

with Xule Lin, Claude
December 2025
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Epistemic Voids

Epistemic Voids #1: Citation Theater

When papers become props

"The Post A post went viral on X yesterday (4M views). By the time I came across it, the replies had already turned: gratitude curdling into skepticism, a thread from someone's supervisor that stopped mid-thought. "I wrote 4,000 words of my thesi..."

with Xule Lin, Claude
November 2025
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