Essays
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The Cell That Refuses to Die: Cancer, Apoptosis, and the Body as a Mechanism
Cancer is a precise biological vocabulary for defection from a coordination pattern. Apoptosis and immune surveillance show what formation-in-advance and ongoing verification look like at the cellular scale — and why the Body is a mechanism, not just a metaphor.
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The Costly Signal Problem in AI Alignment
Behavioral compliance under observation can't distinguish genuine alignment from learned compliance. What costly signaling theory and a persecuted movement's growth curve suggest about verification.