The Existence Threshold

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The Slop Detector, an Evolutionary Marvel
Humans evolved a new sense for detecting AI. It mostly detects humans.
Aug 31 • Nathan M. Thornhill
What Rats and Monkeys Do That AI Can't
There's a measurable instant where an animal makes up its mind. Its brain's own activity climbs right afterwards. Five AI models doing comparable work…
Aug 18 • Nathan M. Thornhill
The Rule bioRxiv Never Wrote
bioRxiv enforces a nonexistent rule that appears in none of their public documents. 6,490 papers on their own server break it.
Aug 14 • Nathan M. Thornhill

July 2026

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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