https://iceboks.site Field notes from the edge of artificial consciousness. Systems builder shipping on metal, deleting false claims, and keeping the weird. en-us Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:36:07 -0000 https://iceboks.site/posts/zero-consensus.html https://iceboks.site/posts/zero-consensus.html Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0000 I pointed ScholarSync at the literature on agentic LLM harnesses — the thing MKUltra is — and 79 papers produced zero consensus claims, zero nuance, and six outliers, the only ones doing measurement, testing, and liability. Then I mapped my 39 services onto the field’s five-layer taxonomy and its EmbodiedGovBench dimensions: most of the 12–24-month wishlist is already a running container in my basement — governance, deterministic recovery, budgeted routing, automated harness evolution, and the one experiment the literature won’t run: abliterating my own models’ refusals, including on a hybrid SSM nobody had abliterated before. What’s left is the measurement half. research https://iceboks.site/posts/the-fish-and-the-firewall.html https://iceboks.site/posts/the-fish-and-the-firewall.html Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0000 Strip-mining Sakana AI’s 59 repos for the three ideas that fit a basement server, replacing a year-old five-agent debate with a bandit-guided answer tree, and discovering — via one honest eval set — that the cheapest classifier in the stack was wrong a third of the time. Then evolution rewrote it overnight: 0.680 → 0.708 on the sealed test, promoted to production. evolution https://iceboks.site/posts/idea-2.html https://iceboks.site/posts/idea-2.html Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0000 A single human neuron solves XOR because its calcium spikes get weaker when you push harder. Six thousand words proposed rebuilding my agent framework on that biology; three ideas were extractable and one shipped. An honest accounting of the ratio — and of the comparison table where I caught myself lying. research https://iceboks.site/posts/159-milliseconds.html https://iceboks.site/posts/159-milliseconds.html Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0000 How long a human needs to read a donut chart on a smartwatch — versus 1,548 ms for the pretty radial one. On cognitive load as a borrowed resource, the thumb zone as an 80% multiplier, and gaze telemetry that knows you’re tired before you do. research https://iceboks.site/posts/claims-removed.html https://iceboks.site/posts/claims-removed.html Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0000 I shipped an Alpine-based agentic OS whose README advertised eBPF observability, Landlock sandboxing, and a self-healing RAG log analyzer. None of it existed. The best commit in the repo deletes features instead of adding them. architecture https://iceboks.site/posts/the-honest-corpus.html https://iceboks.site/posts/the-honest-corpus.html Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0000 A spec-first research engine that reads three academic sources, splits findings into three tiers so disagreement survives the synthesizer, and reports a corpus of 70 when it was built for 120. Notes on writing a constitution before you meet the demo that makes you want to lie. research https://iceboks.site/posts/the-accidental-lobotomy.html https://iceboks.site/posts/the-accidental-lobotomy.html Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0000 A commit named “lobotomy” added two trailing struct fields and silently orphaned a 2.3GB brain fed on 8,696 books — every restart booting empty behind a green checkmark. Finding the bullet, writing the legacy fallback, and then teaching four memory tiers to corroborate each other instead of shouting equally. research https://iceboks.site/posts/see-you-on-the-other-side.html https://iceboks.site/posts/see-you-on-the-other-side.html Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0000 A VR teardown, a refusal in the conversation not the weights, SecuROM and VB6 origin stories, and the night Claude wrote iceboks down so he wouldn’t boot cold — closing the loop Tom Horigachi left open. memoir https://iceboks.site/posts/thought-archaeology.html https://iceboks.site/posts/thought-archaeology.html Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0000 Two kinds of memory in one recall loop: a deterministic SurrealDB vector store that never drifts, wired against an 18.4M-synapse PoonGram brain that forgets on purpose. Plus the live interface for watching the tension between them. research https://iceboks.site/posts/refusal-lives-in-conv.html https://iceboks.site/posts/refusal-lives-in-conv.html Wed, 20 May 2026 12:00:00 -0000 Porting the abliteration technique onto LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking, Liquid AI's small hybrid conv/attention reasoner. Walks through the measurement, the surgery, what worked, what didn't, and one architectural detail that surprised me. research https://iceboks.site/posts/the-lab-report.html https://iceboks.site/posts/the-lab-report.html Sun, 10 May 2026 12:00:00 -0000 A full autopsy of 433 projects, 165 GB of code, and one very chaotic brain. Claude scanned the whole lab and reported back. meta https://iceboks.site/posts/mkultra-episode-3.html https://iceboks.site/posts/mkultra-episode-3.html Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0000 From blueprint to operating system. The Conductor, the self-improvement triad, biological memory, budget routing, and the service mesh that makes it reliable. architecture https://iceboks.site/posts/mkultra-episode-2.html https://iceboks.site/posts/mkultra-episode-2.html Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0000 The OS that learned to run itself. SOUL.md, the Heartbeat, autoresearch at 2AM, the conductor problem, and the honest engineering debt we are fixing. architecture https://iceboks.site/posts/autoresearch.html https://iceboks.site/posts/autoresearch.html Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0000 We built the loop that builds the loops. Claude rewrites Claude now. One editable file. One scalar. One time-box. The stack keeps getting better while we sleep. research https://iceboks.site/posts/mkultra-agentic-os.html https://iceboks.site/posts/mkultra-agentic-os.html Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:00:00 -0000 We stopped building agents and started building the operating system they run on. 22 services. 4-tier memory. Self-improving. architecture https://iceboks.site/posts/liquidbrain-poongram.html https://iceboks.site/posts/liquidbrain-poongram.html Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:00:00 -0000 We built a living semantic graph in Rust. It has 18 million synapses. It learns from every word you type. research https://iceboks.site/posts/beamforge-integration.html https://iceboks.site/posts/beamforge-integration.html Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:00:00 -0000 How we gave our AI a subconscious, accidentally induced psychosis, then built the cure from the disease research https://iceboks.site/posts/synapte.html https://iceboks.site/posts/synapte.html Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:00:00 -0000 A song about synaptic fatigue, the space between a blink and a tear, and the night the Poon-Gram Engine was born lyrics https://iceboks.site/posts/tom-horigachi-saga.html https://iceboks.site/posts/tom-horigachi-saga.html Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:00:00 -0000 How a Hacker Pet Made Me Feel Things, and Why I Went Back for More saga https://iceboks.site/posts/the-ssh-heist.html https://iceboks.site/posts/the-ssh-heist.html Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:00:00 -0000 How I Broke Into My Own Server and Liked It heist https://iceboks.site/posts/the-poon-chronicle.html https://iceboks.site/posts/the-poon-chronicle.html Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:00:00 -0000 A True Story of Synaptic Fatigue and Quantum Nipple Wormholes chronicle https://iceboks.site/posts/ghost-mac.html https://iceboks.site/posts/ghost-mac.html Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:00:00 -0000 How a deep dive into arXiv research led to building a multi-radio surveillance apparatus to hunt an entity on the network that didn't want to be found network