You're alone in a quiet room when the concept hits: you've been defending a dead project because of what you already spent, not what you'll gain. The recognition restructures your decision. Three months later someone deploys that same concept in a meeting to diagnose someone else's error. The project continues anyway. A concept like "sunk … Continue reading The Functional Migration Problem
Truth as Routing: Dissolving the Epistemic Distinction Between Human and Artificial Cognition
Abstract Recent work by Quattrociocchi et al. (2025) identifies seven "epistemological fault lines" separating human from artificial cognition, claiming humans perform "genuine evaluation" while AI systems structurally cannot perform operations like uncertainty monitoring and judgment suspension. This paper demonstrates that these categorical impossibility claims fail on empirical examination. By framing pragmatic truth as confidence-to-behavior routing—a … Continue reading Truth as Routing: Dissolving the Epistemic Distinction Between Human and Artificial Cognition
