Łukasz Diener

The Missing Comparator: A Perceptual-Control Loop That Holds Language-Model Claims to an Independent Record — and the Pre-Registered Test That Could Prove It Wrong

A language model that answers from an organisation's own documents states supported and unsupported claims in the same confident voice, and nothing in the answer, or usually in the system, tells them apart. An earlier audit traced the same structure across thirty systems: an indi...

No Argument for the World: A Control-Theoretic Audit of RLHF's Missing Runtime Loop — and the Verification Architecture That Closes It Without an Oracle

A language model trained by reinforcement learning from human feedback is optimised against a reward function whose arguments are a prompt and a response. That function takes no argument for the state of the world. The grader cannot see the world, and so what it can reward is the...

The Metric Was Green: A Perceptual-Control Audit of Metric Gaming Across 30 Systems — and the Comparator Architecture That Detects It

Across corporations, governments, algorithms, and automated public-decision systems, the same failure recurs with striking regularity: a rich, multi-dimensional objective is replaced by a single measurable proxy; the proxy is optimised under pressure; the proxy is gamed; and the...

The Description Dressed as a Law: A Structural Audit of the Free Energy Principle and the Case for Perceptual Control

The Free Energy Principle is the dominant unifying proposal in the contemporary brain and behavioural sciences. From a single premise — that any system persisting as a distinguishable thing can be described as minimising variational free energy — its proponents recover perception...

The Metric Was Green: A Perceptual-Control Audit of Metric Gaming Across 30 Systems — and the Comparator Architecture That Detects It

Across corporations, governments, algorithms, and automated public-decision systems, the same failure recurs: a rich objective is replaced by a single measurable proxy, the proxy is optimised under pressure and gamed, and the real objective is destroyed. This paper audits thirty...

The Description Dressed as a Law: A Structural Audit of the Free Energy Principle and the Case for Perceptual Control

The Free Energy Principle is the dominant unifying proposal in the contemporary brain and behavioural sciences. From a single premise — that any system persisting as a distinguishable thing can be described as minimising variational free energy — its proponents recover perception...

The Metric Was Green: A Perceptual-Control Audit of Metric Gaming Across 30 Systems — and the Comparator Architecture That Detects It

Across corporations, governments, algorithms, and automated public-decision systems, the same failure recurs: a rich objective is replaced by a single measurable proxy, the proxy is optimised under pressure and gamed, and the real objective is destroyed. This paper audits thirty...