Systems
5 essays filed under Systems.
Govern the boundary
Model-based rules assume capability is scarce. As capable models become small and cheap, the durable place to attach policy is the layer that decides what an AI system may do.
Capacity is not consent
Distributed compute is usually framed as a problem of finding available machines. The harder question is who is allowed to decide what those machines do.
Probabilistic Intelligence, Deterministic Control
Generative models are for reasoning that is still open. Repeated decisions belong to a narrower model, and repeated actions belong to ordinary software.
The computer should be personal again
Local inference matters less as a benchmark and more as a question of where a person's thinking is allowed to live.
Context is the product
What a model is allowed to see is one boundary. What it is allowed to decide, and what the system is allowed to do, are the other two.