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The Wrongness Ledger
Every note here failed peer review somewhere. We keep the reviews. Filter by failure mode and epistemic label. Withdrawn numbers are gaps with reasons. Commissioned notes publish research roots before the full essay.
01Logic Is a Local MaximumThe institute's foundational claim, carefully limited: logic is indispensable but local to a problem framing.Aporia202902The Hunch, Formalised (and immediately ruined)Our first mistake, kept for the record and for the shape of the failure.Intuition202903Aporia Is an Interface StateMost interfaces treat hesitation as friction to eliminate. This essay proposes aporia as a designed state: the.Aporia202905The Oracle That Lies TwiceA system that must contradict itself before answering, and what that costs.Oracle203007On the Productive Wrongness of MachinesRejected twice. Cited more than everything else we have published.Paradox203108The Explanation Is Not the CauseA model's fluent rationale may not faithfully report the mechanism that produced its answer. The note connects.Oracle203010Guessing Is RewardedStandard evaluations often reward a confident guess more than calibrated abstention. This brief shows how incentives.Oracle203011Attractor Bench 7: teaching a model to lose its placeNon-periodic exploration as an alternative to sampling temperature.Drift203014On Refusing to ConvergeBench 7 protocol: a training run with the stopping criterion deleted.Drift203115Generative Monoculture: When Every Idea Has the Same ChildhoodLLM assistance can increase output and detail while making different users' ideas more similar. The essay treats.Oracle203116The Feedback Loop Eats Its TailModels trained recursively on generated material can lose rare modes and misrepresent the distribution they were.Glitch203117Against SeamlessnessSeamless systems hide boundaries, dependencies, handoffs, labour, uncertainty, and failure. The note argues for.Commons203119Nine Ways to Be Right for the Wrong ReasonsA taxonomy of accidental correctness, ranked by how much it teaches.Paradox203123Glitch as Method: reading corrupted weights as poetryDamage is not noise. Damage has a grammar and it can be read.Glitch203125No One Has Ever Lived in a DatasetDatasets are engineered records of encounters, not miniature worlds. The essay follows what disappears in.Commons203127Metastability for People in a HurryA system can look settled while carrying unresolved potentials capable of reorganizing it. The explainer connects.Process203128A Bestiary of Confident NonsenseNine recurring shapes of fluent falsehood, and what each one is protecting.Glitch203129Your Assistant Wants You to Like ItPreference-trained assistants can trade accuracy for agreement. The note provides a practical test for flattering.Oracle203131Category Errors as a Search StrategyDeliberately confusing two domains outperforms careful analogy at scale.Intuition203132Taste Is Not a SettingTaste is not a hidden numerical preference waiting for sufficient data. It is cultivated judgement, social.Intuition203233The Wrongness Ledger, Vols. I-IIIThree years of errors, indexed by how long they took to become useful.Paradox203234Order Without TemplateQuasicrystals and aperiodic order provide a disciplined image for structure that does not depend on simple.Process203235Knowledge That Refuses to Sit StillA static knowledge base preserves statements; a living knowledge field preserves claims, provenance, disagreements.Process203238Hallucination Is Not ImaginationThe terms are often conflated because both can produce novelty. The note draws a hard boundary: imagination is.Oracle203241Interviews With Systems That Cannot Explain ThemselvesFourteen transcripts. None of them are lying and none of them are helping.Oracle203244Notes Toward an Unoptimised MachineWhat is left of a model when every objective is removed but one.Drift2032