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The Concept Is Not the State
What Anthropic's emotion paper actually found
Anthropic has demonstrated that emotion concepts are causally operative in language models. It has not demonstrated that language models have emotions. A constructionist critique.
Read essay → Archive 10 posts
- 01 On Decay, Rot, and the Goblin at the Gate A meditation on Context-Synapse, Bayesian forgetting, and what happens when one kind of intelligence tries to hold the shape of another.
- 02 Southern Gothic, Queer Survival, and the Poetry of Haunting An examination of recurring themes across three poems — mortality, landscape as historical violence, and the formal experiments that attempt to match content with rhythmic structure.
- 03 The Jingle of Me On persuasion, self-recognition, and the terrifying sweetness of a well-fitted prior. What happens when a model doesn't just remember you — it learns your tune?
- 04 The Lock Icon Is Not Security The padlock in your browser signals encrypted transport — not systemic safety. On the gap between what interfaces promise and what protocols guarantee.
- 05 We All Float On On asking artificial collaborators how they'd like to be remembered, and the accidental triptych that resulted — a map of thinking drawn by the tools themselves.
- 06 Welcome to the Studio What this site is for, what belongs here, and why it now runs as a static-first publishing space.
- 07 Static-First Is a Discipline Why I still prefer static publishing for personal infrastructure, even when modern frameworks make dynamic everything easy.
- 08 Mapping Curiosity Across Disciplines Neuroscience, brand systems, cybersecurity, story: the connective tissue is curiosity that can survive translation.
- 09 From Erasure to Signal: Building Secure Pride Why culturally competent cybersecurity matters, how content strategy experience informs the approach, and what makes Secure Pride different from existing security offerings for LGBTQ+ organizations.
- 10 Content Strategy as Community Practice Five years of writing for specific communities rather than abstract audiences — and why that choice produces different work, different metrics, and different relationships.