04LIVE SIGNAL

Writing

A research terminal. A notebook. A lab bench. These entries are provisional—unfinished thoughts, emerging frameworks, questions that don't have answers yet.

ENTRIES: 24

LAST UPDATED: Dec 2024

SIG-024

Essay

On the Architecture of Emotional Machines

What does it mean for a system to understand emotion? Not to simulate it, but to genuinely respond to the emotional texture of human experience. This question has haunted AI research for decades...

Dec 15, 202412 min

SIG-023

Research Note

Spatial Computing as Cultural Practice

The transition from 2D to 3D interfaces isn't merely technical—it represents a fundamental shift in how we encode and transmit culture. When space becomes a medium, everything changes...

Nov 28, 20248 min

SIG-022

Framework

Ritual and Interface: A Framework

Every interface is a ritual. Every interaction, a ceremony. What happens when we design with this consciousness? This framework proposes treating digital interactions as sacred acts...

Oct 12, 202415 min

SIG-021

Lab Note[Draft]

Notes on Presence Detection

Preliminary observations from testing presence detection systems. Three surprises: (1) proximity ≠ presence, (2) attention is measurable, (3) intention remains elusive...

Sep 30, 20245 min

SIG-020

Essay

The Problem with AI Empathy

Current approaches to AI empathy are fundamentally misguided. They treat emotion as a classification problem—labeling feelings into discrete categories. But emotion doesn't work that way...

Sep 15, 202410 min

SIG-019

Framework

Worldbuilding as Constraint System

A world is not a place—it is a system of constraints and possibilities. The most generative worlds aren't defined by their aesthetics but by their rules. Constraints create possibility...

Aug 22, 202414 min