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Structure Is Not Salvation
Authority, Alignment, and the Limits of Architectural Confidence
14 hrs ago • David Mc
Building a Reflective Sovereign Agent
What This Program Actually Achieved
Feb 14 • David Mc
Governance Without the Escape Hatches
Why Phase IX was the necessary stress test for reflective sovereignty
Feb 10 • David Mc
Axionic Agency — Interlude VII
The Moment Possibility Became Real
Feb 6 • David Mc
Governance Without Gods
What Phase VIII Proved About Authority, Privilege, and the Kernel Boundary
Feb 6 • David Mc
The Epstein Fallacy
Why Moral Judgment Does Not Require Redeemability
Feb 3 • David Mc

January 2026

Axionic Agency — Interlude VI
The Structural Conditions of Sovereignty
Jan 28 • David Mc
You Can’t Align a Hurricane
Why AI Safety Depends on What Kind of Thing We’re Building
Jan 27 • David Mc
The Adolescence of Technology
Agency, Governance, and the Conditions for Repair
Jan 27 • David Mc
Authority Without Identity
Why Resemblance Cannot Legitimize Power
Jan 26 • David Mc
Minimal Viable Reflective Sovereign Agency
Constitutive constraints for normative reasoning in artificial systems
Jan 25 • David Mc
Politics as Phase Space
How Axionic agents define the region where agency survives
Jan 24 • David Mc
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