Posts tagged AuditTheMath
Late, Like Jonah: The Jonah Carnival
- 27 September 2026
The Jonah Carnival was meant to open on Petrov Day, and I missed it: late again, like Jonah, who first ran the other way. From Petrov Day to Arkhipov Day and beyond. Who will help put on a Jonah Carnival of a million short amateur plays about a catastrophe that has not happened yet in order to help prevent it from happening? Free to copy, and open for criticism. Let’s avert accidental nuclear winter together!
How Nothing Causes the Worst Disasters
- 14 September 2026
We are trained to worry about what people do. Almost nobody worries about what is absent — because absence feels like zero, like neutral, like nothing happening. It is not. Three times over, at three wildly different scales, nothing is the thing that caused the damage: a version number I never wrote down, an input field that was never supplied, and an industry where nobody with standing specifies the nothing that keeps humanity from walking off a cliff. Offered not to be believed, but to be checked.
How to Avoid Creating Supervillains
- 11 September 2026
A supervillain is not a personality. It is a position: power that nothing left standing can correct. 25 years after 2001, on 9-11 the uncomfortable question is not who the villains are but what keeps manufacturing the position — and that part is structural, which means it can be measured, and argued with, and changed. Here is the whole case without scripture, plus three doors for readers whose tradition already has a word for the danger. Offered not to be believed, but to be checked.
The AI Safety Wager: My RSVP to the Vatican and Anthropic
- 14 July 2026
In May 2026 the Vatican released an encyclical on AI, and an Anthropic co-founder stood beside it asking for “informed critics who will tell the labs when we are failing” and “moral voices that the incentives cannot bend.” This post is my RSVP: one claim about what happens to the most influential agent when it stops accepting correction, where it is stated, what existing alignment research already says about it, and what would count as breaking it — followed by the larger open proposal it belongs to. Don’t believe me. Check.
Your Two Cents Matter: A Babyshower for Matheo & Balospe
- 21 June 2026
After a seven-year pregnancy and a months-long birth drama, twins Matheo (the math) and Balospe (the balance) have finally arrived. Come to the babyshower, hear the song — and turn two cents a day into a force no lobby can buy.
The Nuclear Winter Wager, in Ten Beats
- 18 June 2026
My #AuditTheMath launch thread, gathered here so you can read and share the whole sequence without an X account: Pascal’s broken wager, re-aimed at a finite, checkable catastrophe — accidental nuclear winter. Don’t believe me; look.
The Day After June 17
- 18 June 2026
Yesterday, head-down trying to get this campaign to finally launch, I missed what day it was. In Germany, where I grew up, June 17 once stood for a reunification I was certain — as a teenager — would never happen. It did. Here is what that taught me about the gap between what sounds realistic and what turns out to be Real — and why I am betting on a ResearchCity that sounds just as impossible today.
As a Ger-man Gentile: I’m Handing You the Knife to Cut “my Baby”
- 08 June 2026
Eight days ago, on June 1, I finished publishing something that took years to be born: drafts for a formal, checkable mathematical theology — claims about God and the world stated precisely enough that mathematicians can find the bugs. In one old tradition, on the eighth day you bring the newborn to be circumcised: you cut away what shouldn’t be there. I am a Gentile with no claim on that ritual — and yet the image is the truest thing I can say about what I am doing today. Let me explain it carefully, because it would be easy to get wrong.
Why I Stopped Trying to Save My Research Materials
- 04 June 2026
Someone will reasonably ask: if these materials matter so much, why am I not fighting harder to keep them? Here is the honest answer — not a secular one, so take it or leave it. It runs through the grain of wheat that has to fall and die, through Gideon’s strange fleece, and through the army cut from thirty-two thousand to three hundred. It is about letting go, about why the weakness is the point and not the bug, and about the one test that keeps surrender from becoming a disguise for avoidance.
Burning Libraries in the 21st Century
- 04 June 2026
We remember the Library of Alexandria as one tragic fire. The truth is slower and sadder: most libraries die not in a blaze but by a thousand small defundings — and in the 21st century we are too sophisticated for torches, so we let the spreadsheet do the burning. I write this watching my own life’s research go the same way, and using it to ask a question the size of a civilization: when knowledge does not pay this quarter, and keeping it is no one’s job — where shall all the institutional knowledge go?
Doctor, Save Yourself
- 03 June 2026
On 10 December 2024 I stood at the auction of my own American dream home, in a suit, holding a book about how accidental nuclear winter threatens everyone. I was trying to help the world avoid its eviction from Earth while I was being evicted from my house. The mockery writes itself: Doctor, save yourself. This is the story of that day — and why I have come to think the irony is not an accident but a teaching, about the Jubilee System, about eviction, about compound interest as a slow-motion explosion, and about the oldest mistake of all. You judge.
A Coin in a FiSh’s Mouth: Who Pays My Temple Tax?
- 28 May 2026
Banks cannot clear transfers fast enough, and GoFundMe payouts are slower still, so neither can stop the June-1 auction of the first units of my life’s research. So here is a direct, public ask. In the Gospel story, the coin in a fish’s mouth paid the temple tax for two — and my “temple tax” is a storage debt somewhat below $10,000. Who will be the FiShFus: the dozen-or-so who step in now as All-Stadia Backers, each giving about $1,600, within a hard cap (~$716,800 ceiling) that makes buying influence impossible — with half of everything given back out to others in urgent need? Held with open hands, not as a demand.
Two Sons, Two Altars
- 27 May 2026
Eid al-Adha is a Festival of Trust celebrated to commemorate why Abraham is the father of everyone who places Reality above their own dearest theory and why that is the make-or-break test in the life of a scientist. That is why I did not interfere with the live auction of my life’s research that is now held on the altar in surrender, for Yah=Allah=Reality to do with as Yah pleases.