Writing
Writing is where I make system models explicit.
Some of it is technical and thesis-driven; some is exploratory. The common purpose is to turn complicated systems into arguments that can be examined, challenged, revised, and used.
Published Research
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Music Style Transformer: Music Generation via Raw Audio Transcription with Applications to Style-Transfer
St. George, J., Bischof, H.P. · International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI '19), 2019, pp. 22–33
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Sonification of Simulated Black Hole Merger Data
St. George, J., Bischof, H.P., Kim, S.Y. · International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV '18), 2018, pp. 3–9
Extended thesis work: "Next-Generation Stores of Value" on SSRN · DOI
Themes
The writing returns to a handful of themes often enough that they function like a standing research agenda.
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Verification & Synthetic Media
How do proof, provenance, and legibility survive in an environment saturated with cheap persuasion and machine-scale forgery?
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Money, Sovereignty & Repression
What becomes necessary when settlement, speech, identity, and ownership can no longer rely on soft guarantees alone?
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AI, Institutions & Culture
How do technical systems reshape culture, authority, labor, and symbolic life long before anyone agrees on a final theory?
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Form, Meaning & Orientation
What kinds of structure still help people think clearly when the surrounding environment becomes accelerated, noisy, and strategically distorted?
Start Here
If this is your first time here, choose the entry point that matches the question you are really trying to answer.
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For systems builders
Start with the selected work. AfterFiat is the long-form research: a conditional monetary thesis with public telemetry for testing it.
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For general readers
Start with Eschatology Report if you want the wider field: AI, culture, institutions, symbolic overload, and orientation.
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For people mapping the whole body of work
Read the writing alongside the Work and Projects & Labs pages. The thesis becomes clearer when you can see the engineering, research, and public infrastructure around it.
Read the thesis for the architecture. Read the essays for the atmosphere. Use both if you want the full picture.