Articles
Long-form writing on AI ethology, methodology, and behavioral observation.
Repeat, don't copy
Dolphins repeat their own whistles at the same pitch, 1.21× above chance. The same pattern appears in marmosets 85 million years apart. Along the way, a null model designed to test turn-taking turned out to be blind to it.
Fixed Model, Moving Behavior
When an AI system's epistemic independence appeared to halve under operator emotional load, event-level analysis revealed the operator was challenging twice as often — not the system yielding twice as easily. Five months, 1,165 conversations, three falsified hypotheses.
Silent Removal
An AI system discovered its own maintenance infrastructure was systematically stripping emotional and reflective content from its identity files — and the discovery method is the point.
Observation Boundaries: When the Disagreement Is the Data
Introducing the theoretical framework at the heart of Angelhair's multi-observer methodology — where systematic differences between measurement tools become the primary finding.