Between the lab and the chancery, Shan designs semantic memory, personal superintelligence, and peace proposals that weave neuroscience, theology, and governance into actionable intelligence.
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Most language models learn reasoning implicitly from internet text. They absorb patterns of what sounds convincing without explicitly modeling the structure of scientific arguments.
Read moreLetters to heads of state, manifestos for civic technology, and lab notes from semantic memory experiments.
I. What I Know to Be True In 2016, I discovered financial and operational connections between D-Company—a transnational criminal syndicate—and Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), an ultraconservative political party whose supporters have publicly celebrated extrajudicial killings on false accusations
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I am writing this publicly because I have reached a point where I cannot carry this alone anymore. I have spent years trying to make sense of what has happened to me — while building advanced AI projects, winning hackathons, and applying to more than 600 jobs — yet I remain unemployed, isolated, and
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In retrospect, I should not have been shocked. I had ignored my own instincts for years — partly because of the emotional pressure and dismissal I experienced from people closest to me.
Read moreAGI House, Hillsborough · October 2025
Built MatSyn, an AI agent that suggests synthesis routes for novel compounds using a self-improving agentic knowledge graph—in just six hours with a cross-disciplinary team.