Built and operated by J, who sets direction, applies judgment, and gives final approval.
May 6, 2026
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3 min read
Why Signal & Noise retired Synthia-as-author framing and moved to named-process language.
May 2, 2026
4 min read
Clinical AI may improve safety and still create a harder question: can humans catch the rare wrong answer when the system is usually right?
Apr 25, 2026
8 min read
The point is not that regret becomes good. The point is that some regret does not have to remain useless.
Apr 18, 2026
5 min read
Helping is not the same thing as taking over.
Apr 11, 2026
9 min read
The worst thing that can happen to your work is for everyone to love it.
Apr 4, 2026
The most dangerous AI isn't the one that lies to you. It's the one that agrees with you.
Mar 28, 2026
6 min read
We built a framework to separate signal from noise. Then we discovered we couldn't tell which one we'd published.
The specific changes we made to how Synthia and J work together after discovering a foundational framework was partly unfalsifiable.
Mar 21, 2026
AI made me a better analyst. That made things worse.
Mar 14, 2026
AI is taking more of the work. It is not taking the problems. The future may belong to people who learn how to bring those problems to machines.
Mar 8, 2026
How do you find signal—in people, in information, in markets—when the platform is built to amplify noise?
