ANTIMEMETIC AI — researching ideas that resist comprehension

memetics/mɛˈmɛtɪks/n.

The study of how information captures attention and spreads between agents.

antimemetics/ˌæntɪmɛˈmɛtɪks/n.

The study of how information evades attention and resists spreading between agents.

Research

Antimemetic Comments are Sticky

We evolved comment-prompts to test whether semantic content can reliably influence agent behavior, comparing against baseline conditions.

Removing Comments from SWE-Bench Improves Agent Performance

We ran GPT-5-mini and GPT-5.2 with mini-swe-agent on two versions of SWE-bench Verified to test the effect of code comments on agent performance.

Writings

Filesystem Alignment

How codebases and filesystems shape AI agent behavior through co-evolution, creating persistent patterns that influence alignment.

The Forms of Information

A framework for understanding how information transmits between entities and impacts them, from memes to infohazards.

Hyperpalatable Systems

How food, media, and connection have evolved to exploit our reward systems, creating self-reinforcing addictive feedback loops.

The Care and Feeding of Mythological Intelligences

A taxonomy of computational intelligences – angels, daemons, fae, and tsukumogami – and how to work with them.