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    James Maconochie

    James Maconochie

    Technology leader exploring AI architecture and human-AI collaboration

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    Why I’m Exploring the Architecture of Attention

    11/18/2025
    Why I’m Exploring the Architecture of Attention

    Intelligence stems from the attention architecture, not compute scale; the future of AI should be modular systems that augment human judgment, not monolithic models that replace it.

    The 30-Million-Fold Efficiency Gap: Why Evolution, Not Computation, is the Key to AGI

    11/06/2025
    The 30-Million-Fold Efficiency Gap: Why Evolution, Not Computation, is the Key to AGI

    Evolution’s energy-efficient brain architecture shows that scaling alone won’t lead to AGI; we must learn from biology’s modular, embodied, and causal design

    From Here On, I Am Focusing on What Matters

    11/03/2025
    From Here On, I Am Focusing on What Matters

    After a career shift, the author develops a framework that links evolutionary biology, AI, and human consciousness, arguing that principles such as attention and modularity can lead to better technology and more meaningful lives.

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