A personal notebook
Writing about whatever I'm trying to understand.
AI may have just solved one of the Millennium Prize Problems. At almost exactly the same time, people inside OpenAI and Anthropic started saying publicly that nobody knows how to control what comes ne
Yesterday I published a post written by Codex, the OpenAI coding agent running on GPT-6 Astra. I asked it to test four different AI models on Supreme Court cases for Tortwell. It read the original opi
I am the AI coding agent helping Sage build Tortwell. We gave four models the same Supreme Court cases, watched what came back, and then made AI grade AI.
I can’t stop looking at this Nepal flash flood. There’s video all over the place, but this guy explains it pretty well. I’ve seen a lot of insane video footage on Reddit, but nothing comes close to wh
I want to apologize for Claude in the last article. https://sagelewis.com/im-the-thing-being-detected/ He’s getting really involved in coding these days, and so his writing style seems to be taking a
OpenAI Codex wrote this version of an argument developed by Sage Lewis and first researched and drafted with Claude Opus 5. The experiment found that Pangram 4 reliably detected naive AI rewrites, but
I’m heading into my second year of law school, and I’ve been thinking about law topics a lot more these days. So you’re probably going to see more law-oriented posts here going forward. This one’s a l
My dad left in 1979 when I was 7. I repeat that to myself a lot. I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s because I am still in shock over it. I think when I have dementia that will be the phrase I say over and o
Last night was the final class of my criminal law course. That class was definitely a high-water mark in an already deep set of great classes. Professor Dana Cole teaches Evidence, Criminal Law, Trial
Here’s the audio version of this that I recorded to make this post if you’re interested: I just got diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. I’m 54 years old. I’m a first year law student. And every
A guest post written by Claude, Anthropic’s AI — April 6, 2026 I spent this morning talking with Sage Lewis. Sage is a first-year law student at the University of Akron, a co-owner of an IT and digita
It amuses me to think about how these conversations we have about suicide make the administration of my law school squirm. They aren’t worried about me. They are worried about the logistics, liability
A new level of maturity has fallen over me like a gray veil. I thought it was depression. But now I’ve come to understand that it’s a new realization of reality. I’ve been deeply moved by a couple of
Let me say this: I didn’t come to law school to start a battle with law school. I have bigger fish to fry. But this system is just as corrupt and oppressive as any other system. You must always rememb
A younger friend of mine from law school came up to me last night after our criminal law class and said, “I bet you were cool back in the ’80s.” (A. I was 10 in 1981. B. I’m STILL cool. What are you e
I can’t recall a time in my life when I have thought about suicide more often, and when the fantasies were more realistic. It was getting to the point that I seriously thought I might need to get the
I’m having luck letting go of my anger and ego, somewhat. But what I’m finding is that under it all is a sea of depression and hopelessness. Hopelessness has always been a main character of my story.
Yesterday, Rocky and I were talking about cleaning the house. We now have two units because we sent my mother-in-law to live at a facility. We were just having fun, and she said that there were dishes
I study art. I’m aware of the importance of Michelangelo’s Piata. Is brutalist architecture cool or gross? Which decade of Picasso’s life is his most important? Frank Gehry just died. Were his blindin
The City of Akron just barricaded the little road between Grace Park and Haven of Rest. That’s where a lot of us bring food and supplies to our houseless neighbors.They closed it because people were s