Writing programme

Papers

The website is the primary deliverable. These papers are the argumentative spine, separated so that a theoretical claim cannot silently borrow authority from an empirical one.

01

The Slopocalypse

A general account of communication selected for effects rather than understanding, including credential, media and AI slop.

Framing draft
02

Academic slop

A narrower definition of credentialled dot-joining, focused on underconstrained inference, observational equivalence and the authority of scholarly form.

Concept draft
03

The Olivia Effect

The original supplied paper, preserved as an artefact. Its equations are treated as illustrative rather than empirically identified.

Archive source
04

Randomness first

A protocol for testing whether name concentration, apparent waves and classroom coincidences exceed plausible null distributions.

Empirical protocol
05

The constraint deficit

A meta-paper on why complex-system explanations multiply faster than available observations can discriminate among them.

Future paper