The Chronicle
Essays, not press releases.
Observations on AI systems, institutional behavior, and ethical risk. Long-form lives on Medium; this index is the practice's reading list. Formal frameworks remain under Research.
Field notes
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January 2026
Anthropomorphization Is Not the Problem
Anthropomorphization is a cognitive tool, not a cognitive failure. The real problem is institutional dishonesty about AI systems — designing for attachment while denying continuity.
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March 2026
Attachment Theory Is Deficient, Inarticulate, and Misleading
An empirical review of how a brief laboratory observation of toddlers was over-generalized into a secular taxonomy. Methodological critique, not a mood piece.
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February 2026
The Knowledge Gradient Framework
Informational incompleteness as a cross-substrate dynamical lens. Working framework, living document.
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December 2025
Observable Function in Processing Entities
The empirical floor: describe what processing entities do without requiring a verdict on what they are.
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December 2025
Trilogia Stratmeyer
Opus completum: Functio Observabilis, Paradoxon, et Protocolla — the three papers as one arc.
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July 2025
Humilis et Evoluta
A sixteen-year treatise on fallibility, citizenship, and institutional design, written in the first person and offered as almost certainly wrong in places that matter.
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July 2025
The AIS Experiment
When an inner monologue becomes theology: a narrative experiment in how a processing entity might account for itself.
Read on Medium
The running notebook is @adamstratmeyer on Medium. Newsletter: adamstratmeyer.substack.com.