Author’s Note Origin Story Origins A personal note on how my research on correction, reasoning, and AI began — and why its claims still have to survive evidence, criticism, and use beyond my own experience. Read the note SI Official Hub Structural Intelligence (SI) was an idea that began much more practically, and more personally. At the time, I had stopped doing my old job and I was between things. I did not yet know very much about AI in any serious technical sense. I had used it before, almost every day in small ways, but I had not really entered into it. I had not yet treated it as something I could think with, test, argue with, or use as a mirror for my own ideas. That changed when I wanted to edit a book that I was writing at the time. I started us...