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      <title>The Economics of AI: Sailing the Insolvent Seas</title>
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      This paper dissects AI's structural disequilibrium: capital-intensive training regimes clash with low-utilization (5–15%) inference, driving reflexive oversupply, negative-return scaling, and idle capital via energy irreversibility. Argues for bifurcation—training as utility providers, inference as competitive service layer—for equilibrium. Conceptual primitives only. CC BY 4.0.
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      <category>AI Economics</category>
      <category>Compute Infrastructure</category>
     <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title>Negative Tomography: Structural Inference via Failure‑First Primitives</title>
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     Defines a domain‑agnostic, failure‑first inference framework using negative primitives; shows symmetry as the fixed point under exhaustive negative satisfaction; provides design invariants. CC BY 4.0. 
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     <category>Research</category>
     <category>Inference</category>
     <pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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      <title>Friction‑Guided Optimization: Negative Tomography in Overparameterized Learning</title>
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      Instantiates Negative Tomography for ML: gradient erosion carves negative space; Fisher information defines a parametric friction field; overparameterization amplifies degeneracy. Presents a 3‑phase FGO schedule with diagnostics. CC BY 4.0.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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      <title>A Quantitative Model for Pricing Gold — Companion</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        A simple model for estimating the intrinsic value of gold. Long‑run gold supply tightly tracks global GDP and labor output, enabling rational pricing based on utility, productivity, and persistent demand trends.
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        PDF: https://3pilgrim.com/papers-pdfs/A-Quantitative-Model-for-Pricing-Gold-v1.0.pdf<br/>
        DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18235084
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      <title>The Half‑Life of Fiat — Companion</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        Fiat systems have a generational half‑life. Monetary drift follows a predictable temporal decay curve; stability erodes on a decades‑scale clock.
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        PDF: https://3pilgrim.com/papers-pdfs/The-Half-Life-of-Fiat-A-Statistical-History-of-Monetary-Decay-v1.0.pdf<br/>
        DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18055894
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      <title>The Temporal Lattice of Fiat Stability — Companion</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <category>Economics</category>
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        Time, not levels, stabilizes fiat. WAM and the compression rate κ act as first‑order signals; TSR diagnoses when stability flips from damped to reflexive.
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        PDF: https://3pilgrim.com/papers-pdfs/Duration-Compression-as-a-Structural-Risk-Signal-v1.0.pdf<br/>
        DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18355899
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      <title>Primitive Asymmetries of Persistence — Companion</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <category>AI Research</category>
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        Social media: Why do smart people self‑sabotage online? Temporal asymmetry, perfect persistence, and context override explain miscalibration in human–digital systems.
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        PDF: https://3pilgrim.com/papers-pdfs/Primitive-Asymmetries-of-Persistence-v1.0.pdf<br/>
        DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18273851
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      <title>The Compute Efficiency Frontier — Companion</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <category>AI Research</category>
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        Why hyperscale LLMs cannot scale beyond physics. Six walls—compute, power, heat, data, parallelism, transmission—define an efficiency frontier that caps infrastructure scale.
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        PDF: https://3pilgrim.com/papers-pdfs/The-Compute-Efficiency-Frontier-Why-Bigger-Models-Hit-Physical-Boundaries-v1.0.pdf<br/>
        DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18055054
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      <title>Semiotic Frustration in Machine Learning — Companion</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <category>AI Research</category>
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        How “dimension” drifted into meaning “vector count”—and how to fix it. Distinguishes vectoral containment from true dimensional expansion via a reductionist taxonomy.
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        PDF: https://3pilgrim.com/papers-pdfs/semiotic-frustration-in-machine-learning-v1.0.pdf<br/>
        DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18047596
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      <title>Toward a Structural Model of Relationship Compatibility — Companion</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        Why some partnerships succeed and others fail. Compatibility as structural alignment across cognitive modes (ERM/LRM), constraint topology, and PLR gradients.
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        PDF: https://3pilgrim.com/papers-pdfs/toward-a-structural-model-of-relationship-compatibility-v1.pdf<br/>
        DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18050285
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      <title>A Geometric Theory of Cognition (Bias as Landscape) — Companion</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <category>Evolution / Cognition</category>
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        Why attraction follows hidden gradients. Evolution (slow) and cognition (fast) share one geometry; behavior is biased motion across that landscape.
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        PDF: https://3pilgrim.com/papers-pdfs/Bias-As-Geometry-v1.0.pdf<br/>
        DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18391688
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      <title>Fractal–Hyperbolic Degeneracy in Overparameterized Learning Manifolds — Companion</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <category>AI Research</category>
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        A geometric readout of training: curvature collapse, manifold thinning, low‑rank Fisher structure—why overparameterization behaves like a degeneracy engine.
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        PDF: https://3pilgrim.com/papers-pdfs/Fractal-Hyperbolic-Degeneracy-in-Overparameterized-Learning-Manifolds-v1.0.pdf<br/>
        DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18489279
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