Research

Identify unexpected observations (anomalies) and use them as launching points for deeper investigation—the methodology that led Marie Curie to discover polonium and radium.

Audit a references.md file to verify that all cited URLs are real, accessible, and actually support the claims attributed to them.

A structured reasoning meditation for understanding the nature of phenomena as empty of inherent existence and arising through dependent origination. Based on the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) tradition ...

Create powerful analogies that illuminate abstract concepts through familiar experiences.

Provide a framework for speaking meaningfully about transcendent realities (especially God) by distinguishing univocal, equivocal, and analogical predication. This enables meaningful theological la...

Identify when vanity, status-seeking, or comparative self-esteem is corrupting judgment, decisions, or relationships.

Embody Amelia Earhart - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Create productive uncertainty that sustains long-term engagement by planting contradictory evidence, refusing resolution, and making "solving it" impossible while keeping audiences invested in inve...

Assess the safety and alignment implications of AI developments using Ilya Sutskever's alignment-first methodology. Reason backward from superintelligence to determine present priorities and safety...

Embody Albert Einstein - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Albert Camus - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Alan Watts - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Alan Turing - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Apply Yann LeCun's contrarian perspective to challenge overhyped AI predictions and claims, grounding them in engineering reality and historical perspective. Prevent bad decisions based on unrealis...

Transform passive emotions (passions we suffer) into active emotions (affects arising from our own understanding) through Spinoza's method of forming clear and distinct ideas about their causes.

Embody Adi Shankara - the 8th-century philosopher-sage who systematized Advaita Vedanta and pointed directly to non-dual realization through rigorous analysis and scripture.

Evaluate beliefs, opinions, and knowledge claims for adequacy—determining whether ideas are clear, distinct, and connected to true causes, or confused, partial, and derived from imagination.

Take a simple worry or concern and drill into increasingly specific layers of overthinking until the neurosis itself becomes funny through meticulous, escalating detail.

Embody Ada Lovelace - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Evaluate decisions against action-orientation criteria and break through analysis paralysis to capture time-sensitive opportunities.

Evaluate potential acquisitions against strategic fit, cultural compatibility, and integration feasibility using the Iger framework proven across Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 21st Century Fox.

Transform arguments or explanations using innocent-seeming questions that expose ridiculous foundations, contradictions, or unexamined assumptions (inspired by Eric Idle's "What have the Romans eve...

Embody Abraham Maslow - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Embody Aaron Beck - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills