The Archive
Foundations
The essays on this site condense formal work — papers written in full, cited, disclosed under the Earned Trust standard, and deposited in a permanent archive. Every claim has a home a reader can visit. These are the deposits. And if you want your own work archived this way, here's exactly how.
The Formal Paper · behind Essay II
Morality, Power, and the Problem of a Self-Sufficient God
The complete, structured statement of the argument: twenty sections running from the metaphysics of a self-sufficient God through the history of morality as an instrument of power, to the two-step diagnostic — authentication, then cui bono. Fully cited, with an appendix stating the argument's honest limits.
The Worked Case · companion to the Formal Paper · Essay III
Who Authorized the Authorized Version?
The diagnostic applied to a single canonical case: the King James Bible — a text named for an authorization no surviving document records. From Hampton Court 1604 through Bancroft's rules, three centuries of contested use, Blayney's 1769 revision, and the King James Only movement.
The Standard
Earned Trust: Verifiable Disclosure as a Credential-Substitute for AI-Assisted Work
The AIast disclosure standard: a compact, controlled-vocabulary record of which AI services were used, what each did, and how the work was checked — backed by producible evidence. Everything published here is written under it.
The Hypothesis · behind Essay I
The Lost Innovators Hypothesis
A single-case documentation of AI-mediated theoretical inquiry by a non-credentialed author — the claim that gives this site its name: the tools that lower the barrier to formal work also create the record by which that work can earn trust.
The Method
How to Use AI as a Lost Innovator
The practical, step-by-step method: set a base model and add independent specialist models; draft; have separate models adversarially attack the work; verify every source against primary records — and disclose all of it.