Writing
Essays and reflections from Tara and Lamplight.
Long-form thinking on AI, human agency, consciousness, systems, meaning and the questions emerging where those territories meet.
Resources
Ideas, notes
and references.
A growing collection of the ideas, research, references and outside work informing Lamplight.
Where the threads meet
Ideas worth carrying forward.
Lamplight sits at an intersection.
Some of what informs the work comes from technology and AI. Some comes from design, information architecture and systems thinking. Some comes from decades of inquiry into human experience, consciousness, creativity, pattern and change.
This is where those threads can live together.
A library in progress
Follow the thinking as it develops.
Lamplight is still early enough that much of the most important work is happening inside the research itself.
As that work develops, this space will become a public record of some of the ideas, questions, references and discoveries shaping it.
Not everything belongs here. Some of the methodology and underlying architecture will remain private while it is being developed. But the thinking around the work should be able to travel.
Essay
The difference between assistance and agency
Field note
A small vocabulary for human-centered systems
Conversation
What becomes possible when AI helps us understand ourselves more deeply?
Research notes
Questions become more useful when other people can think with them.
Observations, distinctions and open questions emerging from the Lab, shared when they can be useful without exposing the private methodology underneath them.
Recommended reading
Work that has informed, challenged or complicated our thinking.
Books, papers, researchers and ideas from across disciplines that have informed the questions behind Lamplight.
Updates
Notes from the work as it develops.
Occasional notes on what the work is becoming, what we're learning and where the inquiry is leading next.
Follow the work
Some ideas are worth carrying forward.
As new writing, research notes and references are published, they will be collected here.
If your work intersects with these questions, you don't have to wait for the library to fill.
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