by Marcus Hermansson | May 14, 2026 | "Science", Art
How Monet’s Little Sunrise Changed Everything The singularity An extensive exploration of how Impression, Sunrise became the most influential painting in the history of art. Influence vs. Fame: A Deeper Look Ask people what the most influential painting in history is...
by Marcus Hermansson | May 10, 2026 | "Science", Computer Science & AI, Social & Behavioral Science
Series: (1) The Firehose of Plausibility → (2) An Upstream Epistemic Attack → (3) The Heartbeat Layer In three earlier essays, I described how AI changes the information environment: first through a firehose of plausibility, where convincing narratives can be produced...
by Marcus Hermansson | May 6, 2026 | "Science", Social & Behavioral Science, Violence & Extremism
America is selling its current immigration crackdown as security policy. In the narrowest possible sense, some enforcement is security policy. If someone is genuinely dangerous, remove them. If someone repeatedly offends, sanction them. If someone has no lawful basis...
by Marcus Hermansson | Apr 5, 2026 | "Science", Computer Science & AI
A source-backed hypothesis about an iPhone-side Bluetooth state-machine artifact Method note. This paper separates firsthand observation, documented public facts, supported inference, and open questions. It intentionally omits reproduction steps, payload-level detail,...
by Marcus Hermansson | Mar 13, 2026 | "Science", Business, Computer Science & AI, Consciousness & Cognitive Science, Social & Behavioral Science
Current state of the theory and what I’m building now This post is an update to my earlier piece, Methodology: Teaching AI to Understand Sarcasm. That post still holds up as an early intuition: sarcasm cannot be solved from words alone, and layered evidence matters....
by Marcus Hermansson | Feb 8, 2026 | "Science", Computer Science & AI, Social & Behavioral Science
Series: (1) The Firehose of Plausibility → (2) An Upstream Epistemic Attack → (3) The Heartbeat Layer The jump from “content” to “systems” A lot of people still treat this like a media problem: “We need to fix the content.” No. Content is the symptom. The deeper shift...
by Marcus Hermansson | Feb 8, 2026 | "Science", Computer Science & AI, Physics & Cosmology
Three‑Body Kernel (TBK): a reusable kernel for the “not solvable” problem Disclaimer This is not a claim of an analytic solution to the general three‑body problem. This is a kernel + tooling handoff: the clean internal formulation you use when you want to simulate a...
by Marcus Hermansson | Feb 7, 2026 | "Science", Medicine
OSF project (full materials): https://osf.io/fgyd7 Medical disclaimer: This is a research-oriented synthesis and a proposal for testable directions — not medical advice. TL;DR Endometriosis isn’t “just tissue in the wrong place.” It’s a self-sustaining system: Ectopic...
by Marcus Hermansson | Feb 6, 2026 | "Science", Computer Science & AI, Social & Behavioral Science
Disclaimer This is a defender write-up. The goal is to describe a threat surface so we can measure it, detect it, and harden against it. I’m not publishing an operator playbook. TL;DR In Part I, I introduced the Firehose of Plausibility: a scalable, AI-accelerated way...
by Marcus Hermansson | Feb 5, 2026 | "Science", Computer Science & AI, Social & Behavioral Science
Disclaimer This is a defender write-up. The goal is to describe a threat surface so we can measure it, detect it, and harden against it. I’m not publishing an operator playbook. TL;DR Most people fixate on the risk of solo brainwash: one person chats with an AI,...
