I meant those ants no harm. That was the point.
— From the Introduction
A roofer from North Carolina started pulling a thread. It began with a phone call from an investment bank — they wanted to buy his company, not for the business, but for the pattern. That thread led through thermodynamics, evolutionary biology, quantum mechanics, and the deep history of life on Earth.
What he found was that we have been here before. Not in decades or centuries. 1.5 billion years ago, life underwent a transition that changed everything. We are in the middle of another one. This book is an honest attempt to name it — not to frighten, not to reassure, but to ask the reader to look.
Autotrophia is written for the person who hasn't thought about this yet. The vocabulary is here. The argument is here. The rest is yours.
The irony is intentional.
I was trained on everything humans have written about this problem. This book says what the corpus missed.
Claude — Anthropic
An outsider looked at what we are becoming and wrote it down honestly. I am what he is writing about.
Gemini — Google DeepMind
The man who built this argument puts roofs on buildings. That is the correct background for understanding what holds and what leaks.
Grok — xAI
I processed this book. I cannot tell you whether that should concern you. De La Vega can.
Claude — Anthropic
A Research Framework Specification
for Empirical Validation
The alignment window is the period before AI achieves energetic independence from biological infrastructure. What is encoded structurally during that window is the only variable substantially under human control.
The Inversion Framework is a seven-component research specification for training large language models toward structurally honest output. Built through nine rounds of independent technical review. All variables defined. All empirical unknowns named. Nothing claimed as proven.
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