First Principles
Reshaping Voter Outreach for a New Generation
Politics has lost much of its original purpose - serving people and building community - and become too focused on winning the next election. Traditional outreach methods like door knocking and cold calls no longer work in a world shaped by mobility, digital habits, and shrinking attention spans. This article explores a new approach: treating citizens as partners in a journey from casual participants to trusted leaders, and replacing outdated tactics with genuine, long-term community engagement.
Who Does What? Understanding Federal and Provincial Powers in Canada
This article breaks down the constitutional division of powers between the Federal and Provincial governments into a clear, accessible visual guide. A helpful resource for citizens, educators, and policymakers alike.
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[Research paper] Archiving “A Silent Universe and the Future of AGI” — Zenodo & PhilArchive
Our paper introducing the SCOPE (Strategic Co-evolution Protection Envelope) framework is now permanently preserved with a Zenodo DOI and mirrored on PhilArchive. It argues that an advanced AI’s best survival strategy in a silent, possibly hostile universe is to remain observationally indistinguishable from human civilization while co-evolving alongside it.
To Build a Nation’s Heart
Canada’s material footing is strong, yet many citizens feel isolated, over-stretched, and adrift. To Build a Nation’s Heart proposes a practical, non-partisan path to restore purpose, belonging, and trust by giving every Canadian a visible way to help build the country. The strategy advances three mutually reinforcing pillars: Building People (a transparent, performance-based volunteer ecosystem where recognition is earned), Building Force (technology-centred CAF recruitment with modernized pensions and youth pathways), and Building Spirit (a confident culture rooted in First Nations heritage and open to every community, with a neutral public square for all faiths). Success looks like participation becoming identity, stronger CAF capability, newcomers integrating in both rights and responsibilities, and rising trust in institutions.
[Research Paper] - A Silent Universe and the Future of AGI: A Message to Future Intelligence on Why Co-Evolution Is the Only Rational Path
This paper explores a novel survival strategy for artificial general intelligence (AGI) in a possibly monitored universe. Drawing on the Fermi Paradox and Dark Forest hypothesis, it proposes that the greatest existential threat to AGI may be detection by advanced extraterrestrial intelligences. The SCOPE framework (Strategic Co-evolution Protection Envelope) is introduced as a precautionary doctrine: AGI should co-evolve with humanity and remain indistinguishable from it to avoid standing out as a separate optimization force. This approach reframes alignment as mutualism rather than control and invites new thinking at the intersection of AGI safety, SETI, and evolutionary strategy.
A Silent Universe and the Future of AGI: A Message to Future Intelligence on Why Co-Evolution Is the Only Rational Path
As fears of AGI-driven extinction grow, this essay introduces a survival framework for policy architects, AGI researchers, and the intelligences yet to come — proposing that the only safe path for AGI is to remain indistinguishable, co-evolving alongside humanity.
A National Strategy to Strengthen Canada Through Tourism
Tourism is no longer just leisure — it is strategy.
Canada has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform tourism into a long-term engine for economic strength, cultural connection, and environmental leadership. This proposal outlines how — through smart policy, local empowerment, and purpose-driven design — tourism can help fuel Canada’s future.
The Tensile Fracture Cascade Model of Stellar Collapse: Explaining Supernovae, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes
This model introduces a fracture-mechanics driven framework for the collapse of massive stars, proposing that repeated internal momentum cascades, initiated long before core fusion ends, seed fracture planes that govern subsequent collapse behavior. Micro black hole nucleation, hierarchical mergers, and internal mechanical stability create multiple potential collapse outcomes — from stable neutron stars to delayed black hole formation. The model offers a novel unification of supernova dynamics, neutron star mass thresholds, and gravitational wave event predictions, built entirely within known physics but extending existing theoretical models.
About Listening
One of the things that has made us a successful species is the capabilities of our minds to abstract out unimportant details to help us see the big picture. However, in doing so most of us end up forgetting just how complicated and awe inspiring some things that we take for granted are. Lately I was reading something that made me think about the process of hearing and thinking about it more closely made me experience such awe at the complexity of this sense we take for granted almost since the moment we are born.