Logic Is the Best We Can Do. But We May Be Witnessing the Beginning of the Better.

An interpretive note on logic, probability, and what large language models reveal about the limits of symbolic reasoning.

We use language to think, but language and thought are different. Language is like a tool that helps us share complex ideas in a simpler way. For most of history, logic has helped keep this tool reliable. Now, with large language models, we can better see where language as an interface does not quite work. This essay offers an interpretation, not a scientif…

Your Professionalism Will Be Your Sin

How immature institutions reinterpret professionalism as disloyalty when conscience, evidence, and power no longer align.

Some institutions praise professionalism only while it remains decorative. The moment professionalism becomes operational, when it identifies preventable risk, documents a breach of trust, or insists on correction, the same institution may reinterpret it as disloyalty. This note examines that inversion. The argument is not psychological. It is structural. I…

The Lost Res Publica: A Call to Conscientious Engineers

On engineering as a public function, and on what happens when institutions optimize away dissent, repair, and civic responsibility.

Consistency over convenience, voice over silence. Engineering is often described in economic terms: productivity, leverage, efficiency, optimization. Those terms matter, but they are incomplete. Engineering is also a public function. It shapes the systems through which institutions allocate trust, distribute risk, and exercise power. When those systems are…

The First and Last Surname gTLD, `.kim`

milhan.kim no longer redirects to LinkedIn and now serves as a primary home on the web.

I have owned milhan.kim for some time. The .kim gTLD is unusual in that it functions both as a family name and as a top-level domain, which made it worth preserving even before it had a clear editorial purpose. For several years, https://milhan.kim redirected to my LinkedIn profile. That arrangement was convenient, but it treated the domain as a forwarding…