Lara Stuart-Mueller

The Empty Vertical: Toward a Theory of the Technological Folly — Programless Systems, Institutional Display, and the Architecture of Nothing

A research paper naming the technological folly as a distinct object of architectural, organizational and technical analysis: a substantial, institutionally maintained computational architecture whose structural identity is independent of a validated operational program, and whos...

The Empty Vertical: Toward a Theory of the Technological Folly — Programless Systems, Institutional Display, and the Architecture of Nothing

A research paper naming the technological folly as a distinct object of architectural, organizational and technical analysis: a substantial, institutionally maintained computational architecture whose structural identity is independent of a validated operational program, and whos...

Governing the Internet: What Every Major Conference Got Right, What They Got Wrong, and What Building It Right Actually Looks Like

A white paper assessing two decades of internet governance conferences — WSIS 2003–2005, WCIT-12, NETmundial 2014, the Internet Governance Forum, and the 2024 Global Digital Compact and NETmundial+10 — and arguing that they produced correct principles and no enforcement. It ident...

The Systems of Democracy: AI Governing Power and Reach Inside — Companion Key and Article

The reading key and written argument accompanying the diagram The Systems of Democracy: AI Governing Power and Reach Inside. It transcribes all nineteen mapped domains across the social, political and infrastructural dimensions in full, together with the two central inventories o...

Verification Is Not Validity: From Self-Verifiable Rewards to Governed Execution

A control-plane analysis distinguishing three concepts routinely collapsed in contemporary AI discourse: event verifiability, proxy validity, and governance sufficiency. Taking Reinforcement Learning with Self-Verifiable Rewards and its SpyRL instantiation as its case, it accepts...