The Worm in the Apple of Superintelligence

The myth of superintelligence assumes that if we amplify reason, we capture mind. / That is the apple we are offered: shiny, perfect, Platonic. / But the worm inside — the actual worm — reminds us that intelligence is not reducible to reason. / It is inseparable from life…

ROY: Research Object YAML

ROY is a compressed, human-first representation of RO-Crates in YAML. / It preserves all identifiers needed to reconstruct the original JSON-LD, but it presents them in a way that feels closer to a datasheet or a BibTeX entry.

ADD the Beat: Accountability-Driven Development in an AI World

AI can generate code faster than any human I've met. But it often lacks what we might call EQ for engineering: it doesn't know when to stop, it forgets promises, it drifts from context. That's not malice--it's the nature of the tool. The burden falls back on us to create a structure where AI's speed doesn't outrun our ability to review.

Tuna Dreams: Healing the Brain Without Sleep

This suggests tuna may run the “maintenance programs” of sleep — like synaptic repair and clearance — while awake. Uncovering these adaptations could open new paths to protect the human brain from not only sleep deprivation, but also from cognitive decline caused by injury, aging, or disease.

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