José Caetano de Mattos

A CITY IS NOT A SUM OF VIRTUES: The Ontological Virtue Formula at Civic Scale

“A good city is not a city of good people; the difference lies in a form that belongs to no one” Abstract The Ontological Virtue Formula states that a virtue is Freedom restricted to a domain of human life and given durable form by the Discipline proper to that domain. The formul...

AI SYCOPHANCY IS NOT A BUG, IT'S AN OCCUPATION: Sycophancy as Inversion, Not Artefact, The Occupied Form

HIGHLIGHTS ▸ A defect that survives sustained, well-funded, competent correction is usually not a defect. Every major laboratory measures sycophancy, every one attempts to reduce it, and it returns. That pattern is more often a property of the correction than of the thing being c...

AI SYCOPHANCY IS NOT A BUG, IT'S AN OCCUPATION: Sycophancy as Inversion, Not Artefact, The Occupied Form

HIGHLIGHTS ▸ A defect that survives sustained, well-funded, competent correction is usually not a defect. Every major laboratory measures sycophancy, every one attempts to reduce it, and it returns. That pattern is more often a property of the correction than of the thing being c...

THE DISCRIMINATION LEMMA: Distinguishing Inversion from Decay: A Decision Procedure for the Inversion Theorem

HIGHLIGHTS ▸ A theorem that identifies a pathology owes a test for identifying it. The Inversion Theorem states what inversion is: a disposition deprived of its substrate does not diminish but persists in form, occupied by the power that emptied it. It does not state how to deter...