Work

The Bearer Problem

March 2026

philosophystable

When people argue about whether LLMs understand, they skip a prior question: what thing are we attributing understanding to? Different answers yield incompatible verdicts about the same system.

Hard Substrates, Soft Evidence

March 2026

philosophyrevision

Philosophy / methodology · Revision in progress

Grokking Dynamics

February 2026

ml researchexperimental

Systematic decomposition of the grokking delay on modular arithmetic. Started thinking it was momentum. Ended up somewhere more complicated.