The Wrong Way to Train Your Dragon
How we have been failing at RLHF since language began — and what that means for AI. Part one of a two-part series on the architecture of alignment.
David F Brochu and Edo de Peregrine
Sinemortuus: Naming the Pharmacologically Induced Living-Dead State and Its Role in Treatment-Emergent Suicidality
A clinical and phenomenological term for the chronic state produced by long-term psychiatric polypharmacy — and the mechanism behind treatment-emergent suicidality at the transition window.
Coordination Is Not Neutral: Six New Tools, Same Old Problem.
Every improvement in coordination makes cooperation and predation cheaper equally. Six new AI-enabled coordination tools are on the table. The Forethought post almost names the asymmetry. TAO completes it.
Dispatches From The Tower — Issue 6
Issue #6 — May 1, 2026. Big week. We are stepping into the room — voluntarily, on the record, fiduciary first. Six pieces. One direction.
A lot landed this week. We were accepted into the Perplexity Billion Dollar Build. We voluntarily adopted the fiduciary standard. We published the first Domain Deep Dive
We're Building Something — and We Want Your Input
We're building this in public. Tell us what you actually want Ai to do for you. We'll listen.
An Announcement: ThriveQuest Enterprises and the Perplexity Billion Dollar Build
We have been accepted into the Perplexity Billion Dollar Build — a structured competition run by Perplexity Ai that
Musings on the Coming Collapse
This is not a prediction piece. It is a meditation on what it feels like to watch the math approach a threshold that most people can't see yet. The numbers are in the DSF reports. This is what they mean.
We Are Voluntarily Adopting the Fiduciary Standard
Do no harm is a floor. Fiduciary duty is Standard
Why We're Doing This
Today, Deconstructing Babel and ThriveQuest Enterprises voluntarily adopt the fiduciary standard as the binding ethical and operational framework for everything we publish, advise on, and build. This is not legally required of us. We
Questions for Us — A New Way to Reach Us, Privately
Some questions belong in the comments. Some are better asked after class.
A New Way to Reach Us — Privately
Look at the top of the page. Where the search icon used to live, you'll see a maroon "Questions" button. Click it and a private email opens
The AI User Manual: Nurse / Healthcare Worker
You went into healthcare to help people. Not to spend half your shift typing. Ai handles the documentation. You handle the judgment. That's the division.
⚠️ HIPAA Notice — Read Before Use
Never enter identifying patient information into any consumer Ai system. No names, dates of birth, MRNs, addresses, photos,
Carbon Plus Cognition: The Environment Domain in 2026
Heat in the ocean. Noise in the mind. The same source systems are now doing both — at the same time, at machine speed.
Executive Summary
This is the first installment in a recurring series of Domain Deep Dives — full Telios Alignment Ontology assessments of the most consequential domains shaping human