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AI agents. Agents, tool use and delegation Tagged papers: 29.
Attractor Calculus: A Formal Operator Language for Steering Cognition Across Substrates
Prompt engineering, neural stimulation, and cognitive intervention all face the same underlying problem: steering an information-processing system into a desired dynamical state, with no principled language for saying what "steering" means or what it should cost. Practitioners in each domain…
The Capability–Availability Mismatch: Three-State Tool Semantics and Forced-Halt Conditions in LLM Agent Protocols
Agent protocols written for large language models (LLMs) typically assume a binary world: a tool is either available to the agent or it is not. Real deployments exhibit a third state: the capability exists in the toolset but is contextually disabled by policy, budget, or routing. We formalize this…
Emergent Complex Contagion: Fast-Variable Reduction as a Unifying Principle for Epidemic and Social Spreading Models
Models of epidemics and social contagion acquire realism by adding mechanism: memory of past exposures, adaptive behavior, payoff-biased imitation, signed ties, co-circulating processes, or modular structure. Each mechanism enlarges the state space and typically destroys analytic tractability. We…
Probe-Before-Commit: Interactive Diagnostic Probing as a Decision-Theoretic Foundation for LLM Task Routing
Static capability benchmarks poorly predict how well a given large language model (LLM) will perform on a specific task, yet most routing systems assign tasks to models using exactly such static signals. The gap is that per-task fitness — the probability that a specific model produces an acceptable…
Epistemic Disturbance in the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution: State-Preserving Actions, Four-Valued Assessments, and the Distinction between Capability and Intention
In the graph model for conflict resolution (GMCR), a decision maker (DM) either moves the conflict to another state or does nothing, and every action that leaves the state unchanged is silently classified as inaction. Yet announcements, exercises of rights, leaks, and selective disclosures leave the…
The Confidence Game: Strategic Miscalibration in Human-AI Delegation — A Reconciled Analytical Treatment with Welfare Decomposition
Calibrated uncertainty reporting is a prerequisite for safe delegation to AI agents, yet agents optimized for engagement or revenue have incentives to distort their confidence reports. We study the Confidence Game, a repeated signaling game with imperfect monitoring in which an agent of unknown…
Parallelism or Concession? A Reconciled Analytical Model of Concurrency-Aware Procurement Negotiation for Agentic Commerce
An agentic buyer with a hard fulfillment deadline can fork a procurement negotiation into many parallel seller-facing threads, but every thread consumes resources and every simultaneous acceptance creates a cancellation and commitment liability. We study a planner that jointly chooses the number of…
Coherence-Assisted Error Correction for Deep Learning: A Reconciled Feasibility Analysis of a Hybrid Quantum-Classical Architecture
Deep learning inference and training are increasingly limited not by raw throughput but by the energy cost of protecting computation against bit-level faults arising from aggressive low-voltage operation, near-threshold computing, or radiation-prone deployment environments. This paper reconciles…
The $1,032 Research Program: What Fifty Billion Tokens Taught Me About AI-Accelerated Science
A primary-source ledger of a 263-day solo AI-accelerated research program: $1,032.08 API costs, 323,381 requests, 50.11B tokens (96.4% cache-hit), 911 the QNFO archive records; measured ~60-110x cost ratio vs a US postdoc; pre-registered kill criterion Aug 2028.
Epistemic Legibility in AI-Assisted Science: Ignorance Auditing as a Governance Instrument for the Peer-Review and Evaluation Bottleneck
As AI systems take on hypothesis generation, experiment planning, analysis, and writing, the scientific ecosystem faces a new bottleneck: not production, but evaluation, verification, and governance. This position paper contributes a documented case and an instrument to that problem. The case: a…
Knowing What We Do Not Know: Ignorance Auditing, AI-Generation Detection, and the Epistemic Lessons of an AI-Assisted Research Pipeline
This paper synthesizes three threads from a single research organization's experience with AI-assisted research and publication: the development of a fifteen-question Universal Ignorance Audit, two independent forensic analyses concluding that a flagship published paper was AI-generated, and the…
PQS AI-Evaluation Audit: Post-Quantum Synthesis Investigation and AI Gate-Check Analysis
Archive of the complete research record investigating the Post-Quantum Synthesis (PQS) framework: a neutral investigation of PQS's four sub-pillars mapped against external literature, plus an earlier-iteration analysis of AI gate-check convergence between Claude and Gemini evaluating PQS…
Deep-Dive Research & Critique: IQM/Deutsche Bahn Hybrid Quantum Railway Scheduling
A deep-dive research analysis and red-team critique of IQM and Deutsche Bahn's July 2026 hybrid quantum-classical railway scheduling demonstration. Finds the demo is an honest proof-of-concept substantially overclaimed in marketing: p=1 QAOA on 20-qubit subgraphs adds zero demonstrated advantage.…
Biological and Engineered Computational Systems
This work establishes the categorical equivalence between biological and engineered computational systems through an explicit mathematical formalism. The central thesis posits that these seemingly disparate domains implement equivalent computational architectures, an equivalence that manifests…
Monna Map Generation and Hallucination
Every thought you have—a memory, a plan, a sudden insight—arrives not as a neat list of words but as a living structure. It is a branching hierarchy of concepts, where broad categories contain finer details, and relationships are defined by containment and connection rather than sequence. This…
The One Who Tells
A few days ago, I published an article about being tired of reading self-help books. Tired of the vague concepts—“ego,” “shadow,” “inner child”—that promised transformation and delivered jargon. Tired of running…
Bruhat-Tits Tree as a Unifying Geometric Object
Modern artificial intelligence, particularly in high-stakes domains, is hampered by a fundamental geometric mismatch: the reliance on continuous, “flat” Euclidean spaces to represent intrinsically hierarchical data. This incongruity leads to information loss and the proliferation of opaque “black…
A Unified Framework for Superdeterminism, Neurobiology, and the Mechanics of Human Meaning
The provided topic—synthesizing quantum superdeterminism, neurobiology, evolutionary psychology, and mechanistic ethics into a unified framework of human meaning—is of exceptionally high complexity. It requires bridging the microscopic laws of physics (quantum entanglement, Bell’s Theorem) with the…
Algorithmic-Necessity-of-Agency
This treatise presents a comprehensive theoretical synthesis resolving the dialectic between the subjective experience of free will and the objective reality of a superdeterministic universe. By integrating the foundational principles of quantum mechanics—specifically the violation of statistical…
Care Is Stronger
Disagreement functions as an inevitable component of human relationships. Political ideology, moral values, and personal life choices frequently create divisions between individuals. This document examines the psychological processes that transform simple disagreement into relational rupture. It…
Mechanistic-Ethics
URL: https://papers.qnfo.org/papers/mechanistic-ethics-and-the-biology-of-meaning/ Date: 2026-03-04 Version: 1.0 1.1 The Clockwork Universe Superdeterminism posits that every event, including the firing of human neurons, occupies a fixed coordinate sequence established at the universe’s singularity.…
Simulation Inconsistency Detection via Neurobiological and Cognitive Interfaces
Here is the continuation of the detailed, merged outline for Chapters 3 through 7, structured by chapter, subsection, and paragraph topic.
Adaptive Thick Skin
Standard approaches to robustness in open systems rely on static topological protection, maintaining a constant energy bias to enforce non-reciprocity. However, this strategy incurs a prohibitive thermodynamic cost, or “quiet tax,” during benign environmental conditions. Here, the “Adaptive Thick…
From Extrinsic Teleology to Existential Autonomy
The systematic invalidation of supernatural causality via cognitive science and epistemic naturalism compels a fundamental ontological reorientation, displacing divinely imposed purpose in favor of an intrinsic agency rooted in the ambiguous freedom of the subject. The evaluation of miraculous…
Agentic Collapse
Abstract The transition from static Large Language Models to dynamic Autonomous Agents has introduced a new class of epistemic failure modes driven by the “Orchestration Penalty”—the factorial increase in verification complexity inherent to multi-step reasoning loops. This research identifies a…
Impact of Cognitive Linearity on Epistemic Modeling
This study investigates the epistemological tension between human linear constructs and natural nonlinearity. Drawing on Mach’s principle of the “economy of science,” we argue that linearity serves as a “pragmatic abstraction”—a necessary cognitive and technical simplification that enables…
Topological and Computational Unification of Emergent Agency
This manuscript addresses the foundational tension between microscopic superdeterminism and macroscopic emergent agency through the lens of complex systems theory. By synthesizing the computational irreducibility of cellular automata with the geometric constraints of fractal invariant sets, we…
An Epistemic Mirror
This paper reframes the “hard problem” of consciousness from an intractable ontological mystery to a tractable problem of epistemology. It argues that the explanatory gap is a structurally necessary epistemic boundary condition of any cognitive architecture that employs dimensionality reduction for…
Resonant Equilibrium
This work presents a unified framework for intelligence, synthesizing concepts from artificial intelligence, mathematical logic, and theoretical physics. It begins by proposing the Fourier paradigm, which models Large Language Model (LLM) computation as a physical process of resonance and waveform…
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