Ideas from Jared Edward Reser Ph.D.
Abstract A popular technological soundbite observes that the computing power available in a modern smartphone exceeds that used by NASA during the Apollo program. While the comparison is simplified, it captures an important pattern in technological progress: capabilities that once required vast institutional resources eventually become available to individuals. This article argues that a similar…
Introduction In earlier work I proposed the solitary forager hypothesis of autism, which suggests that some of the cognitive and behavioral characteristics associated with autism reflect adaptations that were advantageous in contexts where individuals spent extended periods foraging or working alone. Under such conditions, reduced social monitoring, sustained attention to environmental detail, heightened sensory acuity,…
Jared Edward Reser and ChatGPT 5.2  Introduction Over the past two decades I have explored the idea that autism may be better understood through an evolutionary lens. In earlier work I argued that autism traits may reflect adaptive cognitive strategies that were useful in certain ecological and social contexts rather than simply representing pathological…
Abstract For most of human history, the past becomes increasingly difficult to reconstruct as time passes. Evidence deteriorates, memories fade, and records are lost. However, modern digital society is generating an unprecedented and persistent archive of human activity through cameras, financial systems, communications networks, and sensor-rich devices. As artificial intelligence systems improve, it may become…
Abstract: Artificial intelligence may inaugurate a transition unlike prior technological revolutions. Whereas mechanization and computing increased productivity while preserving the economic centrality of human labor, advanced AI plausibly reduces the need for labor itself across a widening range of cognitive and productive tasks. This prospect forces a governance question that is not merely technical but…
I. The Tender Window: A First Person Observation A small amount of alcohol can produce a surprisingly distinct state. Not drunkenness. Not impairment in the dramatic sense. Something subtler. With a quarter or half of a shot, there can be warmth, muscle release, a slight lift in mood, and a softening of self monitoring. Alone…
Autism is not a failure of working memory or inner cognition. It is a difference in what is admitted into working memory and what is allowed to accumulate there over time. For much of the twentieth century autism was framed as a cognitive deficit. Individuals on the spectrum were described as impaired, delayed, or lacking…
Abstract Large language models lack direct perception and bodily action. Even when paired with cameras or microphones, the core model does not inhabit a sensorimotor world in the way animals do. Yet the absence of embodiment does not automatically settle whether such systems could possess any minimal analogue of subjective continuity. This article argues that…
Longevity Without Stasis: Why Immortality Is Not a Prison Recent discussion around longevity escape velocity has revived an old anxiety. If humans could live indefinitely, would life become a kind of prison. Would one be trapped in existence, unable to exit, condemned to an endless extension of boredom, regret, or suffering. For many people, death…
Architectural Constraints for Large-Scale Artificial Agents Jared E Reser Ph.D. Abstract The rapid scaling of artificial agents creates a condition of moral uncertainty in which it is unclear whether some contemporary AI systems may instantiate morally relevant forms of consciousness, even as they are replicated and deployed in vast numbers to perform routine cognitive labor.…
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