@SuperPutman

Meaning, language, models, simulation, and the weird machinery of interpretation. Author of The Levain of Logos. Non-tech writing and related work. 💙

 Oneida, NY
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Joined August 2025
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As I get closer to releasing my book on meaning, language, and how ideas survive transmission, I’ll be using this account to share my non-AI work—essays, writing, and related projects. @putmanmodel will remain home to my tech work, civic issues, and civil-rights advocacy.
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What if simulation isn’t about whether reality is fake, but about how we interact with reality at all? A Practical Simulation Theory — a short visual explainer on model-mediated reality, perception, memory, maps, AI, and continuity. youtu.be/SSF86AKSqmQ

Model-Mediated Reality: A Practical Simulation Theory

What if simulation isn’t about whether reality is fake, but about h...

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A home for some of my work on models, meaning, simulation, privacy, governance & human-AI systems. Six essays/preprints, mirrored on GitHub with their canonical Zenodo DOIs preserved. github.com/putmanmodel/model…
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A democracy is in trouble when the President becomes “the Commander” rather than an elected official exercising limited authority — just as policing fails when cops start acting like they are justice. Government as a Sensing System: zenodo.org/records/22119627

Government as a Sensing System

Government as a Sensing System develops a conceptual model of government as a layered public architecture for noticing, interpreting, shaping, and governing shared conditions. It proposes the...

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In this essay, I argue that a functioning democracy depends on keeping office, authority, and personal identity separate. Representatives exercise public power; they are not the state itself. When those distinctions collapse, correction and accountability become much harder.
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I hope I can sell a copy of my book tonight!
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Mary York@Mary_ork9 Sep 2025
🚀 Authors! Publishing your book is just the beginning, the real success comes when readers discover it. Don’t leave it to chance, DM me to get your book in front of the right readers.
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A preview essay from my forthcoming book, The Levain of Logos: The First Levain: Communication, Transmission, and the Human Drive to Share Meaning On language, story, models, media, AI, and how meaning survives transmission. zenodo.org/records/20518585

The First Levain: Communication, Transmission, and the Human Drive to Share Meaning

The First Levain is a public-facing opening essay for Stephen A. Putman’s larger book-in-progress, The Levain of Logos. It argues that humanity’s deepest invention may not have been a device, but the...

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Government may be easier to understand if we start with perception rather than power. Notice weak signals → interpret patterns → shape responses → govern → observe the consequences. Federalism then looks like nested observation across scales. zenodo.org/records/22119627 #Politics

Government as a Sensing System

Government as a Sensing System develops a conceptual model of government as a layered public architecture for noticing, interpreting, shaping, and governing shared conditions. It proposes the...

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I’m creating a short video explaining A Practical Simulation Theory. It’ll be my first narrated video with animation, so if there are any specific questions you’d like me to address, let me know.
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Most Simulation Theory arguments ask whether reality is generated by some higher system. This paper asks a smaller, practical question: What if simulation is not only something we might be inside, but something that arises from within reality whenever living beings build models of the world? Metaphysical Simulation Theory is a creation claim. Practical Simulation Theory is a mediation claim. We may or may not live inside a simulation. But we clearly live through models. zenodo.org/records/20301862 #Philosophy #AI #SimulationTheory

A Practical Simulation Theory: How Modeled Reality Becomes Lived Reality

This working paper distinguishes metaphysical Simulation Theory from Practical Simulation Theory: a model-mediated account of how living beings perceive, remember, communicate, coordinate, and act...

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Remembering isn't the same as granting authority. Experience Entry Gate separates associative retention from canonical commitment. Persistence is governed, not automatic. putmanmodel.github.io/experi… #AISafety #AI
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One of my better-performing essays on Zenodo has been Models, Meaning and Continuity. The core idea: meaning survives because humans build models — words, records, stories, rituals, institutions, media — that let experience travel across minds and time. zenodo.org/records/20420348

Models, Meaning, and Continuity: A Three-Part Essay Cycle on Models, Metaphor, and Story

This essay cycle argues that human meaning is stabilized through models: selective cuts into ongoing continuity that make experience recognizable, recordable, transmissible, and actionable. The first...

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26 unscripted NPC in one scene. The “P” may as well be for “Party.” 🎉 Can’t stop thinking about what this could become with VR/XR + AI gen in the mix. #NPC #AI #XR #IndieDev #GameDev #Unity3D #AIGenerated #VR #16HourDays
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LLOYD is live. Not another sentiment model — a tone-drift engine that listens like a human. Detects symbolic conflict, escalation, and emotional reversal. → pip install lloyd-drift-demo → tinyurl.com/Lloyd-demo → github.com/putmanmodel/LLOYD… #AI #LLM #NLP #EmotionAI #SymbolicAI

L.L.O.Y.D. Tone Drift

A symbolic drift detection and tone deviation engine that listens like a human would — tracking n...

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Most tone models stop at positive vs negative. LLOYD starts where others fall short: 💬 Symbolic drift 🔁 Mocked echo 🧠 Memory-weighted escalation Demo: tinyurl.com/Lloyd-demo Install: pip install lloyd-drift-demo Full docs: github.com/putmanmodel/LLOYD… #EmotionAI #NLP #AIethics
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