Ideas from Jared Edward Reser Ph.D.
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…
In “A Cognitive Architecture for Machine Consciousness and Artificial Superintelligence: Thought Is Structured by the Iterative Updating of Working Memory” (arXiv:2203.17255), I, Jared Reser lay out a proposal for what a thought process would look like if we tried to engineer it directly into AI, rather than treating intelligence as something that falls out of…
1. Continuity as an engineering requirement Most AI systems today can carry context, but that is not the same thing as continuity. They can remember tokens in a window, cache internal values, retrieve documents, and still feel like they are jumping between internal scenes. When people talk about “coherence,” they often mean the output stays…
I. Thresholds and the Limits of Contemporary Language Discussions of artificial intelligence tend to rely on a narrow range of rhetorical extremes. AI is alternately presented as a tool of near‑miraculous salvation or as an existential threat whose emergence will render human agency obsolete. While these narratives differ in tone, they share a common limitation.…
1. The basic intuition: we already scrutinize others, just informally Most of us have had the experience of watching someone speak for a few minutes and forming a surprisingly rich impression. It is not just what they say. It is how they say it. Their timing, their facial expressivity, their level of tension, their energy,…
This essay builds upon the concepts introduced in “AI-Mediated Reconstruction of Dinosaur Genomes from Bird DNA and Skeletons” (Reser, 2025). You can read the full original proposal here: https://www.observedimpulse.com/2025/07/ai-mediated-reconstruction-of-dinosaur.html?m=1 In that proposal I outlined a three tiered machine learning pipeline where an AI system is trained to learn the mapping from the genomes of different…
Thesis: Writing with the use of AI should be more broadly, accepted, because it improves clarity, throughput, and ergonomics, but it must come with norms for human accountability, verification, and transparent process, especially as detection and provenance evolve. 1. The hidden cost of “traditional writing” I love writing, but I do not love what writing…
Introduction: Standing at the Threshold of Synthesis I have been fascinated by science for as long as I can remember. Since childhood, I have been drawn to big ideas, deep explanations, and the moments when a single insight suddenly reorganizes how the world makes sense. Over the years, I learned about evolution, physics, neuroscience, biology,…
1. The GTA VI Delays Were Short Sighted Despite years of delays, Grand Theft Auto VI will be commercially dominant. It will generate extraordinary revenue, command cultural attention, and reinforce Rockstar Games’ position at the apex of large-scale entertainment production. Any serious analysis must begin by granting this point. The claim of this article is…
I. Introduction: The next interface after chat It’s late December 2025, and you can already see the silhouette of AI interaction in 2026. For the last few years, we’ve treated AI as a text box that talks back. Sometimes it speaks with a voice. Sometimes it writes code. But the interface has still been basically…
Iterated Insights 