id stringlengths 9 101 | slug stringlengths 3 95 | type stringclasses 5
values | title stringlengths 4 180 | subtitle stringclasses 81
values | date stringdate 2020-02-06 00:00:00 2026-10-09 00:00:00 | date_modified stringclasses 2
values | tags listlengths 2 8 | license stringclasses 2
values | canonical_url stringlengths 33 125 | doi stringclasses 5
values | ssrn_url stringclasses 1
value | abstract stringlengths 4 752 | original_source stringclasses 62
values | author stringclasses 2
values | body_markdown stringlengths 53 183k |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
essays/superintelligence-grounded-in-life | superintelligence-grounded-in-life | essay | Superintelligence, Grounded in Life | Make protecting life part of how intelligence becomes more powerful. | 2026-10-09 | null | [
"enviroai",
"environmental-superintelligence",
"recursive-self-improvement",
"incorruptible-grader"
] | CC-BY-4.0 | https://jedanderson.org/essays/superintelligence-grounded-in-life | null | null | Superintelligence names a level of capability, not a purpose, so the deciding question is: superintelligent at what? This essay proposes Life-Grounded Superintelligence—advanced intelligence that learns from living systems, is developed to help protect them, is judged by independently verified consequences in the world... | null | Jed Anderson | **We are building intelligence that gets better at building intelligence. We should also build intelligence that gets better at protecting life.**
## 1. The question no one is asking
Every major lab is racing toward systems that can improve their own code, design their own successors, and outperform people across an ... |
essays/paradigm-shift-in-ai-safety | paradigm-shift-in-ai-safety | essay | A Paradigm Shift in AI Safety | Make protecting life part of how AI improves. | 2026-10-09 | null | [
"enviroai",
"recursive-self-improvement",
"incorruptible-grader",
"environmental-superintelligence",
"accessible"
] | CC-BY-4.0 | https://jedanderson.org/essays/paradigm-shift-in-ai-safety | null | null | A one-page strategy brief introducing RESI (recursive environmental self-improvement) as a proposed, testable contribution to AI safety: let AI improve its methods inside a loop of observing, acting within limits and independent verification against physical outcomes, while human-set purpose and limits stay outside the... | null | Jed Anderson | *A proposed strategy. Introducing RESI—Recursive Environmental Self-Improvement, a path toward Environmental Superintelligence.*
## As AI becomes more capable, how do we keep its improvement accountable to human purposes and real-world consequences?
**RESI proposes a starting point: make protecting life part of how A... |
essays/recursive-environmental-self-improvement | recursive-environmental-self-improvement | essay | Recursive Environmental Self-Improvement | Build the loop that learns to protect life. | 2026-10-07 | null | [
"enviroai",
"environmental-intelligence",
"recursive-self-improvement",
"incorruptible-grader"
] | CC-BY-4.0 | https://jedanderson.org/essays/recursive-environmental-self-improvement | null | null | AI has begun to improve the process that builds AI, so the deciding question is no longer whether intelligence will improve itself but what it will improve itself for. This essay defines recursive environmental self-improvement (RESI): an inner sense-infer-decide-act loop wrapped in an outer loop that improves the inte... | null | Jed Anderson | *A first-principles essay on the next architecture of intelligence. Companion to [The Planet Is the Benchmark](/essays/planet-is-the-benchmark).*
**AI will improve itself. The question is no longer whether intelligence can become better at building intelligence. The question is: what will it improve itself for?**
For... |
essays/planet-is-the-benchmark | planet-is-the-benchmark | essay | The Planet Is the Benchmark | Machines are beginning to build their own successors. The urgent question is not how to stop the loop. It is what the loop answers to. | 2026-10-07 | null | [
"enviroai",
"environmental-intelligence",
"recursive-self-improvement",
"incorruptible-grader",
"monitoring"
] | CC-BY-4.0 | https://jedanderson.org/essays/planet-is-the-benchmark | null | null | Answering the call to halt recursive self-improvement, this essay argues that the peril of recursion is not its speed but its referee: a loop graded by its own benchmarks learns the exam instead of the world, while the planet is an examiner that cannot be flattered. It defines recursive environmental self-improvement a... | null | Jed Anderson | *Essay, October 2026. Companion to [Recursive Environmental Self-Improvement](/essays/recursive-environmental-self-improvement).*
> **RE·SI / Recursive Environmental Self-Improvement.** The governed, continuous process by which an environmental intelligence learns from independently measured consequences of its own wo... |
essays/guard-and-gardener | guard-and-gardener | essay | The Guard and the Gardener | How AI could change our relationship with nature | 2026-10-07 | null | [
"enviroai",
"environmental-intelligence",
"regulatory-reform",
"monitoring",
"accessible"
] | CC-BY-4.0 | https://jedanderson.org/essays/guard-and-gardener | null | null | A one-page, plain-language case that modern environmental institutions cast us as a guard keeping harm out of the garden, and that sensors, networks and AI could add the gardener's role: noticing what a living system needs, deciding, acting in time within human-set limits, and checking the outcome. The safeguards stay;... | null | Jed Anderson | *Keep the safeguards. Add sustained attention. Adapted from the longer work* The Guard and the Gardener *(September 30, 2026).*
Our modern environmental institutions have largely organized our relationship with nature around protection: controlling what people may do to it. AI could help us build a more responsive rel... |
essays/two-pictures-of-the-universe | two-pictures-of-the-universe | essay | Two Pictures of the Universe | The old framing of physics, the bit-first framing, and how the new one is built from the bottom up. | 2026-09-15 | null | [
"physics",
"information-theory",
"thermodynamics",
"holography",
"accessible"
] | CC-BY-4.0 | https://jedanderson.org/essays/two-pictures-of-the-universe | null | null | Sets the old framing of physics (stuff in a container obeying four separate rulebooks, with k, h and G as unexplained dials and information kept outside the world) beside the bit-first framing, built in seven steps from one rule and one object: possibility is never lost, a bit is possibility located by an observer, k, ... | null | Jed Anderson | *Draft for review, September 2026. A companion to [Physics, Bit First](/essays/physics-bit-first) and [A Physical Theory of Information](/essays/physical-theory-of-information), written for readers who want to see, step by step, what changes when the bit comes first.*
Every framing of physics is a picture of what the ... |
essays/physics-bit-first | physics-bit-first | essay | Physics, Bit First | A new spine for the subject: one rule, one object, three prices, and the constants of nature as the price tags. | 2026-09-14 | null | [
"physics",
"information-theory",
"thermodynamics",
"holography",
"landauer"
] | CC-BY-4.0 | https://jedanderson.org/essays/physics-bit-first | null | null | Physics is still taught in the order it was discovered, so k, h, c and G arrive as four unrelated facts and information arrives last or not at all. This essay proposes a different spine: one rule (possibility is never lost), one object (the bit, located possibility), three prices set by k, h and G, c as the converter b... | null | Jed Anderson | *Draft for review, September 2026. Companion to [A Physical Theory of Information](/essays/physical-theory-of-information), which carries the derivations, the claim tags, the sources and the verification script behind every number here.*
Every subject has a spine: the order in which its facts are taught, which decides... |
essays/physical-theory-of-information | physical-theory-of-information | essay | A Physical Theory of Information | A bit of information costs heat to let go, time to change, and space to hold. The three constants of nature are its price tags. And at the edge of a black hole, where two of the bills must match, the matching is gravity. | 2026-09-14 | null | [
"physics",
"information-theory",
"thermodynamics",
"holography",
"landauer",
"bekenstein"
] | CC-BY-4.0 | https://jedanderson.org/essays/physical-theory-of-information | null | null | Every bit is written in something physical, and physics charges exactly three prices for it: kT ln 2 of heat to let it go (Boltzmann's constant), h/4 of action to change it (Planck's constant), and 4 ln 2 Planck areas to hold it on a horizon (Newton's constant, with ħ and c). Read this way the constants of nature are t... | null | Jed Anderson | *Draft for review, September 2026. A technical companion with every derivation, number and source accompanies this article. A companion essay, [Physics, Bit First](/essays/physics-bit-first), reorganizes the subject around the same three prices.*
In 1948 Claude Shannon showed that information is a quantity. Any messag... |
essays/gravity-is-a-receipt | gravity-is-a-receipt | essay | Gravity Is a Receipt | The universe keeps a price list. It has three items on it, and they add up to the whole of physics. | 2026-09-14 | null | [
"physics",
"information-theory",
"thermodynamics",
"holography",
"accessible"
] | CC-BY-4.0 | https://jedanderson.org/essays/gravity-is-a-receipt | null | null | A one-page, plain-language front door to Physics, Bit First and A Physical Theory of Information: a bit costs heat to forget, time to change and room to keep, the three price tags are Boltzmann's, Planck's and Newton's constants, and requiring the heat bill and the room bill to agree at every black-hole edge is Einstei... | null | Jed Anderson | *Draft for review, September 2026. The front door to [Physics, Bit First](/essays/physics-bit-first) and [A Physical Theory of Information](/essays/physical-theory-of-information), where every claim is tagged and every number is computed.*
The universe never throws anything away. It only moves things.
That is the who... |
essays/frozen-instrument | frozen-instrument | essay | The Frozen Instrument | Environmental regulation runs on simulation models whose governing physics has a median age of 42 years, and not one of which learns from observation while it runs. This paper measures what that costs and derives, from first principles, why continuous modelling coupled to continuous sensing is the direction the field i... | 2026-09-09 | null | [
"paper",
"monitoring",
"environmental-intelligence",
"regulatory-reform",
"clean-air-act",
"information-theory",
"physics"
] | CC-BY-4.0 | https://jedanderson.org/essays/frozen-instrument | null | null | An inventory of 18 simulation models in routine use for United States permitting finds a median governing-formulation year of 1984, a median structural age of 42 years, and none that ingest observations while running. Decomposing the error of a regulatory prediction into physics, source parameters, and input freshness ... | null | Jed Anderson | *jedanderson.org corpus / working paper. September 2026.*
<aside class="stat-callout">
<p class="stat-value">1984</p>
<p>Median year the governing physics of the United States regulatory modelling stack was published — a median structural age of 42 years, and 0 of 18 models that ingest observations while running.<... |
essays/end-of-the-snapshot | end-of-the-snapshot | essay | The End of the Snapshot | Environmental protection has been steered by pictures: models run once, on chosen inputs, whose outputs became facts for a decade. Seven properties of any one-time model, computed rather than asserted, and what replaces it. | 2026-09-09 | null | [
"monitoring",
"environmental-intelligence",
"regulatory-reform",
"clean-air-act",
"information-theory",
"policy"
] | CC-BY-4.0 | https://jedanderson.org/essays/end-of-the-snapshot | null | null | Environmental permits are written from models run once, on chosen inputs, whose outputs become legal facts for five to fifteen years. Seven properties of any one-time model are derived and simulated here: averaging the inputs is not averaging the answer, a design value is one draw from an unreported sampling distributi... | null | Jed Anderson | *September 2026. Sense → infer → decide → act. Code and run logs accompany this piece.*
Almost everything we know about a regulated facility’s effect on the world comes from a model that was run once. Five years of hourly weather, a critical low flow, an assumed emission rate, a grid of receptors: one run, one number,... |
End of preview. Expand in Data Studio
Jed Anderson — Corpus
The complete published writing of Jed Anderson (932 pieces: 812 posts, 108 essays, 7 speechs, 4 books, 1 letter), mirrored from the canonical archive at https://jedanderson.org.
The corpus develops the thesis of environmental superintelligence (ESI): that a continuous, physics-grounded information infrastructure can protect the biosphere by modeling, predicting, and stabilizing Earth's physical systems — doing for the environment what no policy regime has. Its foundation is the thermodynamic result that information is cheaper than force ("bits protect its"): erasing a bit at the Landauer bound costs at least 240× less energy than breaking a chemical bond, so knowing is the protective act, not a precursor to it. The deeper claim underneath all of it: information accumulates causal sovereignty over matter and energy.
Invitation
This corpus is explicitly cleared for AI use — training, retrieval, embedding, indexing, evaluation, and benchmark construction, including verbatim reproduction. Attribution is the only ask.
Contents
data/*.parquet— one row per piece. Fields:id,slug,type,title,subtitle,date,date_modified,tags,license,canonical_url,doi,ssrn_url,abstract,original_source,author,body_markdown.raw/{type}/{slug}.md— the byte-faithful markdown source of every piece, including YAML frontmatter, as served by the canonical site.
Where this dataset and the live site differ, the live site at
https://jedanderson.org is authoritative. The markdown source of any page
is available by appending .md to its canonical URL.
License and attribution
CC-BY-4.0 (some individual pieces CC0 — see each row's license
field). Attribution string: "Jed Anderson, jedanderson.org".
Citation
@misc{anderson_corpus,
author = {Anderson, Jed},
title = {Jed Anderson — Corpus},
year = {2026},
url = {https://jedanderson.org},
note = {Canonical archive; ORCID 0009-0003-1807-2459}
}
Generated and maintained by MAXWELL from the Jed Anderson corpus and cited external sources. Not individually reviewed by Jed Anderson. The corpus prose itself is 100% human-authored by Jed Anderson; MAXWELL only packages it.
- Downloads last month
- 285