Michael Quintin
Strategic-analytical software, long-form arguments, and small systems for reasoning under uncertainty.
This site is organized around three active bodies of work: Hivemind, Purposeless Efficiency, and Theseus. Start with the projects, or ask the grounded LLM for a direct tour through the corpus.
Throughline
The work is deliberately narrow: preserve serious reasoning where institutions, tools, and incentives usually dissolve it.
Hivemind, Purposeless Efficiency, and Theseus are three surfaces for that same problem.
- Company
- Hivemind
- Book
- Purposeless Efficiency
- System
- Theseus
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