Iterated Insights

Ideas from Jared Edward Reser Ph.D.

Why Transformers Approximate Continuity, Why We Keep Building Prompt Workarounds, and What an Explicit Overlap Substrate Would Change

Abstract This article argues that “continuity of thought” is best understood as the phenomenological signature of a deeper computational requirement: stateful iteration. Any system that executes algorithms across time needs a substrate that preserves intermediate variables long enough to be updated, otherwise it can only recompute from scratch. Using this lens, I propose a simple…

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Plural Canons and the Siloed Future of Synthetic Knowledge

1. The “Final Library” was never going to be singular When I first started thinking about what I called a “Final Library,” I pictured a single, civilization-scale repository of synthetic writing, synthetic hypotheses, and machine-generated explanations. The basic premise was simple: once AI systems can generate and refine ideas at industrial scale, they will produce…

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When Machines Write the Machines: Alignment in the Age of AI-Authored Code

Abstract: Software is entering a self-referential phase transition. AI systems are rapidly becoming the dominant authors of new code, and increasingly they are also writing the surrounding infrastructure that governs the behavior of AI systems themselves. This essay argues that the central alignment risk in this shift is not deliberate malice, but missing deliberation. When…

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About

Iterated Insights is a place where I explore how minds evolve, how intelligence emerges, and how complex ideas take shape one update at a time. My background is in brain and cognitive science, and much of my work focuses on memory, emotion, development, and the biological foundations of thought. I believe that many of the questions we face today, especially around artificial intelligence and human cognition, can only be understood by looking at how minds build themselves through experience.

This blog brings together the different threads of my research and writing. Here I examine topics like working memory, attachment, neuroecology, machine consciousness, stress adaptation, and the evolutionary forces that shaped our brains. I also write about AI alignment, developmental models of artificial minds, and the possibility of creating systems that not only think but care.

The goal of Iterated Insights is simple. I want to follow ideas across disciplines and trace how they transform as they are refined again and again. Whether the topic is ancient neurobiology or future superintelligence, I am interested in the patterns that repeat across scales. These essays are my attempt to understand those patterns and share them in a way that invites deeper thinking.

Jared Edward Reser Ph.D.

You can also see my work at:

http://www.aithought.com

http://www.programpeace.com

http://www.observedimpulse.com