I · open notebook · since 2026
Intelligence that drives decisions.
Public notebook of Frederico Heitmann — research on AI, cognition, theories of consciousness and the AGI alignment problem. Everything here is a gnosis: a canonical unit of knowledge with traceable origin, context and confidence.
II · featured
III · latest gnoses
all →Ethos: the layer that precedes retrieval
In Gnostikon, ethos is mandatory: principles, rules, limits and style are injected before any retrieval. No ethos, no action.
Strange loops and the substrate of identity
Notes on Hofstadter and the hypothesis that the self is a recursive pattern of self-reference — not a substance.
Clostera & the AI optimization era
Technical analysis of BaseModel.ai's open-source clustering library. Why elegant math + optimized hardware still wins.
Alignment as an epistemic problem
The ethical formulation of alignment is parasitic on a prior epistemic formulation: how to prevent the system from lying about what it knows.
The era of cheap AI is over
Compute is the bottleneck. Bottlenecks become price. Whoever used the cheap window to integrate and redesign now operates at a different level.
Chomsky vs Pinker — the grammar axis
Quick map of the internal dispute between universalist generative grammar and language as evolutionary adaptation.
IV · canonical
Stabilized positions. Canonical gnoses carry high confidence and a broad citation network — the base on which the rest is built.
- AI proficiency is now competitive edgeconf · 0.86
- Ethos: the layer that precedes retrievalconf · 0.81
- Alignment as an epistemic problemconf · 0.71
- The era of cheap AI is overconf · 0.78
- Hacker mindset — mental laziness as adversaryconf · 0.88
- 379 hours — source code of human intelligenceconf · 0.72
- Nike Chile case — applied behavioral AIconf · 0.82
V · research map
- AGI & AlignmentAlignment as an epistemic problem before an ethical one. How to teach an AI not to lie about what it knows.3 gnoses
- Theory of consciousnessHofstadter, Hawkins, recursion, thousand brains. What makes a system know that it knows.5 gnoses
- Cognition & languageChomsky, Pinker, generative grammar, and why LLMs inherited an old problem.3 gnoses
- Behavioral AI in retailReal cases of personalization at scale. Where hard math still beats GPU brute force.3 gnoses
- Operating philosophyStoicism, first principles, and the thesis that happiness is solving problems.5 gnoses