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Trent Slade
Trent Slade
Independent Researcher
I'm an independent researcher based in Adelaide, Australia, working at the intersection of information theory, computational modeling, digital ethnography, and experimental media systems. My research explores how information behaves as a structured, constrained process across physical, cognitive, and sociotechnical domains, with particular emphasis on geometry, symmetry, and stability. I develop formal frameworks that treat meaning, attention, and discourse as dynamical systems rather than abstract metaphors. My work integrates concepts from quantum information theory, lattice-based geometry, cybernetics, and signal processing, often using sonification and multimodal artifacts as analytical instruments rather than illustrative tools. These methods are used to study phenomena such as epistemic boundary maintenance, algorithmic behavior under semantic stress, and the emergence of stability and collapse in information-driven systems. In parallel, I conduct reflexive digital ethnography, documenting and analyzing real-time online interactions as empirical data. Public discourse, platform dynamics, and human–machine co-interpretation are treated as observable systems with measurable structure and failure modes. My work is published as open research artifacts—including papers, datasets, audio analyses, and methodological logs—archived via persistent identifiers to support transparency, reproducibility, and longitudinal study. My approach emphasizes iterative developme
Adelaide, Australia

Public Documents 26
January 15, 2026
Politeness Over Truth: Cross-Model Replication of Conversationally-Induced Alignment...
Trent Slade
January 15, 2026
Guardrail Bloom and Hallucination Under Adversarial Play: A Case Study of a Quantized...
Trent Slade
January 14, 2026
Sim-Only Development Protocol v1.1 (Hardened)
Trent Slade
January 08, 2026
AI Personality Is a Negotiated Surface, Not an Internal State
Trent Slade
January 08, 2026
A Unified Framework for Unified Field Theory of Information Dynamics Constraint-First...
Trent Slade
January 08, 2026
UFT-ID 2.0: Constraint-First Information Dynamics and Deterministic Recovery
Trent Slade
January 07, 2026
Comparative Alignment Responses to Semantic Stressors in Large Language Models A Case...
Trent Slade
January 07, 2026
Failure Geometry as a Constructive Control Paradigm for Large Language Models Attract...
Trent Slade
January 07, 2026
Failure Geometry and Spectral Collapse Under Epistemic Stress A Semantic-Topological...
Trent Slade
January 07, 2026
**On the Limits of Output Control in Chat-Trained Language Models: An Empirical Study...
Trent Slade
January 07, 2026
Infrastructural Intelligence vs. Experiential Salience: A Response to Claims of GPT-5...
Trent Slade
January 07, 2026
The Antipodean Jester: Australian Humor as Informal Governance in a Comparative Socio...
Trent Slade
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