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    <!-- llm:summary="A polyglot runtime for the 21st century, we find quaint things underneath: Truffle ASTs, native-compiled tooling, in-process inference, and a bunch of other cool shit." -->
    <!-- llm:tags="elide, runtime, polyglot, graalvm, javascript, typescript, python, performance, developer-tools, truffle, rust" -->
    <!-- llm:freshness="archived" -->
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.alifjakir.com/blog/how-to-create-virtual-universe</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-01-05</lastmod>
    <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <!-- llm:content-type="article" -->
    <!-- llm:summary="Digital twins promise perfect mirrors of reality. But who controls what gets mirrored, and what gets left out? The answer reveals everything about power in the age of simulation." -->
    <!-- llm:tags="digital-twins, simulation, infrastructure, technology-critique, AI, virtual-reality" -->
    <!-- llm:freshness="archived" -->
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.alifjakir.com/blog/in-the-wake-of-what-i-used-to-be</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-03-30</lastmod>
    <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <!-- llm:content-type="article" -->
    <!-- llm:summary="Draft prose: self-transcendence, bio–tech convergence, and memory after the Singularity; haunted, peaceful cyborg subjectivity. Akira, Romantic poets, Lem’s Summa Technologiae." -->
    <!-- llm:tags="fiction, draft, posthuman, transhumanism, Singularity, memory, prose poetry" -->
    <!-- llm:freshness="archived" -->
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.alifjakir.com/blog/prolegomena-to-the-future-of-mind-in-the-universe</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-03-30</lastmod>
    <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <!-- llm:content-type="article" -->
    <!-- llm:summary="A draft outline exploring mind, substrates, computation, neurobiology, and possible futures of cognition beyond biological constraints." -->
    <!-- llm:tags="philosophy of mind, consciousness, cognition, neuroscience, AI, draft" -->
    <!-- llm:freshness="archived" -->
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.alifjakir.com/blog/welcome-to-politics-in-the-age-of-intelligent-machines</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-03-30</lastmod>
    <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <!-- llm:content-type="article" -->
    <!-- llm:summary="Draft outline: AI, power, collective intelligence, governance, disinformation, and the politics of intelligent machines." -->
    <!-- llm:tags="AI, politics, governance, disinformation, outline, draft, collective intelligence" -->
    <!-- llm:freshness="archived" -->
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.alifjakir.com/blog/who-owns-the-singularity</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-01-20</lastmod>
    <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <!-- llm:content-type="article" -->
    <!-- llm:summary="A critique of superintelligence discourse: engaging with the arguments, tracing their origins in the TESCREAL ideological bundle, and asking who benefits from the framing." -->
    <!-- llm:tags="AI, superintelligence, philosophy, TESCREAL, longtermism, effective-altruism" -->
    <!-- llm:freshness="archived" -->
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.alifjakir.com/papers/superintelligent-human-machine-teams</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-18</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <!-- llm:content-type="article" -->
    <!-- llm:summary="When people and artificial agents work together, the team usually performs worse than its best member, and when teams of agents fail, they fail at coordinating rather than at the tasks their models can do. We argue that both findings have one explanation: the intelligence of a human–machine team is " -->
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.alifjakir.com/papers/verified-software-factory</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-18</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <!-- llm:content-type="article" -->
    <!-- llm:summary="A systems paper on software production at the scale of thousands of concurrently acting agents. At that scale the limit is coordination, not model capability: claim contention, context leakage, unbounded write authority, and human review bandwidth. The paper describes an architecture in which every " -->
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.alifjakir.com/papers/neural-assembly-explorer</loc>
    <lastmod>2025-01-24</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <!-- llm:content-type="article" -->
    <!-- llm:summary="We present an interactive platform for exploring the Assembly Calculus (the computational framework proving neural assemblies perform universal computation) and the NEMO model of language acquisition. The tool makes billion-scale neural simulation accessible without GPU clusters, enabling interactiv" -->
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.alifjakir.com/papers/autonomous-science</loc>
    <lastmod>2024-12-06</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <!-- llm:content-type="article" -->
    <!-- llm:summary="We introduce the Fully Autonomous Society of Scientists (FASS): a hierarchically coordinated multi-agent research system where AI agents form specialized scientific communities with dynamically generated roles. FASS explores whether computational systems can engage in methodological reasoning (adapt" -->
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.alifjakir.com/papers/machine-metacognition</loc>
    <lastmod>2024-01-10</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <!-- llm:content-type="article" -->
    <!-- llm:summary="An investigation into how artificial systems can develop metacognitive capabilities (the ability to think about their own thinking processes) and the implications for AI safety and performance." -->
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.alifjakir.com/papers/foundation-model-agents</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-03-02</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <!-- llm:content-type="article" -->
    <!-- llm:summary="This paper critically examines the potential harms associated with adopting foundation model agents, focusing on their impact on human knowledge and agency. While these AI systems offer significant benefits, we argue that overreliance may lead to degradation in critical thinking and autonomy. Throug" -->
  </url>
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