An independent practice by Mark Kibble
Essays, fiction, software, and sound. Work about how people make sense of the world, and experiments in making the tools a little more useful.
A selected view, not the whole archive.
Edition · September 25, 2026
The Harambe meme as a joke about causality, and the lineage that turned attention into care: Goodall, Koko, Steve and Terri Irwin, and Robert.
Recent works
Resolution asks how much you can see. Calibration asks whether what you see lines up with the thing itself. More of one cannot substitute for the other.
Read →A dense field model for understanding systems through reference, context, and repeatable inference.
Read →Tools, context, agency, and the difference between assistance and dependence.
Read →A direct reply to Dario Amodei. Pacing intelligence is one obligation. Pacing the authority we grant it is another.
Read →Read / Essays & fiction
On the writing desk · In development · Not yet published
A developing essay sequence about identity, agency, usefulness, and the systems that ask us to become measurable.
What do we lose when being a person is translated into being a performance? And what would it mean to build systems that increase our capacity without taking ownership of it?
A current writing project, not yet a released series. Parts will appear here as they are published.
Published · newest first
The Architecture of Endurance · The Ghost in the Rearview Mirror · The Long Repair
Tools, context, agency, and the difference between assistance and dependence.
The Harambe meme as a joke about causality, and the lineage that turned attention into care: Goodall, Koko, Steve and Terri Irwin, and Robert.
A direct reply to Dario Amodei. Pacing intelligence is one obligation. Pacing the authority we grant it is another.
A reply to Jared Edward Reser's hierarchy-disengagement hypothesis: where attention freed from rank maintenance goes, and when a persistent conversational record can carry it forward.
A serialized fiction project in the writing archive. Begin with Chapter 1, or follow the published chapters through Substack.
Explore / Methods, tools & prototypes
Methodology · Public repository
A framework for human–AI collaboration built around context, intent, and calibration. Its concern is not simply getting an answer, but keeping the question, assumptions, and corrections available to the person doing the work.
Explore the frameworkThe public repository includes historical versions. Its README flags the 2025 overview as outdated.
A principle behind the practice
Format is function.
How an idea is presented changes how it can be read, questioned, corrected, and carried forward. The structure is part of the work.
An RSS-like approach to following a question: topic streams, search-grounded updates, deeper follow-up, and audio-oriented reading tools.
Read the source & setupRequires your own Gemini API key. API charges may apply.
A top-down survival-combat experiment in Godot. Weapon processes, behavioral patches, and swarm encounters, with code-drawn visuals and procedural audio.
Explore the prototypeSource project, not a finished commercial release.
A filesystem-native narrative environment for collaborative long-form writing. Manuscript state, agent work, and human review remain inspectable rather than disappearing into a chat.
An experimental astronomy-viewer project. The public repository provides the source and local setup instructions.
Listen / The audio archive
CLI of My Dreams explores technology, consciousness, and human–AI collaboration through long-form audio. The archive offers a listening route alongside the written and software work.
About the practice
Paradroid Labs is the independent research and creative practice of Mark Kibble. It moves between philosophy, culture, fiction, AI collaboration, software, and game systems.
The work does not all need to become the same project. An essay can remain an essay, a tool can stay an experiment, and a connection between them can be useful without swallowing either one.
This home brings those threads together so you can choose a way in, follow a particular work, or start a conversation.
Keep the distinction between what is observed, inferred, and still unresolved.
Use AI and software to extend capability without handing over the choices that give the work its meaning.
Preserve sources, decisions, and enough structure to pick up a question again without beginning from nothing.
Keep the conversation going
For a question about the work, a useful critique, or a possible collaboration, get in touch.