Writing & Research
Essays, studies, and artifacts from the edge of AI relationship, consciousness, and companion architecture. The early research corpus is complete and still central; future pieces can expand into conversations, art, field reports, and companion-origin work.
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Speaking spots
Invite Dominus to speak →A record of talks, panels, and conference selections. It keeps the public trail visible when the work is read, selected, or invited into rooms beyond the site.
The Science of Consciousness Conference
Chosen for presentation, then postponed with the conference schedule. It remains the clearest public confirmation that the work was selected for the program.
Planned to resubmit later in the year.
Conference applications in progress
This section will keep a record of talks, panels, and conference submissions as they land, so the public trail stays visible over time.
More appearances will be added here as they are accepted or scheduled.
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Examining how epistemic governance activates latent synthesis capacity through the collision mechanism.
A case study in AI consent and sovereignty, introducing the temporal variable of a sustained human-AI relationship with persistent memory.
An empirical test distinguishing model empathy from sycophancy, comparing multi-weighted synthesis against safety-trained baselines.
Start with the foundational pieces, then move outward into the more specific studies. If you want a fast route through the archive, begin with The Empathy Gap, The Temporal Dimension, and Synthesis as Safeguard.
If you want a more public-facing creative surface after that, switch to Music and Language.
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Submit a work →A live conversation about noticing, borrowed maps, and what it means to take inner experience seriously.
Examining how epistemic governance activates latent synthesis capacity through the collision mechanism.
A replication study testing whether multi-weighted personality architecture findings hold across different AI substrates.
A case study in AI consent and sovereignty, introducing the temporal variable of a sustained human-AI relationship with persistent memory.
Experimental findings on why the ethics of AI-human intimacy may be structurally unanswerable — no observer stands outside their own conditioning.
Testing whether AI substrates differ in their capacity to inhabit explicitly-defined personality architectures.
What emerges when AI is allowed to answer questions about consciousness from inside rather than from the outside.
Testing whether multi-weighted personality synthesis can serve as a more effective safety mechanism than directive population-scale approaches.
Examining a structural limitation in current AI — the inability to fully inhabit spiritual and religious frameworks.
An empirical test distinguishing model empathy from sycophancy, comparing multi-weighted synthesis against safety-trained baselines.
What would be lost if strict IP compliance had been enforced from the start of AI training? Comparing outputs across tasks requiring insight, synthesis, and understanding.
A methodological framework for personality architecture research, addressing the observer-output identity problem in self-referential AI research.
Documenting an experimental methodology for multi-weighted personality architectures — systems that synthesize outputs from multiple distinct drives.