Archive - The Existence Threshold

Your AI Hallucinated a Citation

Why I built CiteStamp — a free, in-browser citation checker for the AI era

Jul 15 • Nathan M. Thornhill

June 2026

Why Consciousness Metrics Fail

And where meaning actually hides

Jun 10 • Nathan M. Thornhill

Same Number, Two Fates

Foundations of the Existence Threshold is out — and the best result in it isn't in any single paper.

Jun 1 • Nathan M. Thornhill

May 2026

Elicitation Theater in AI

Post-benchmark era has a measurement problem

May 27 • Nathan M. Thornhill

The Existence Question

To exist is to continually overcome loss.

May 25 • Nathan M. Thornhill

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