Entity profile: This page documents the background and methodology of Łukasz Diener — an independent researcher applying Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) to AI alignment and to undeciphered Bronze Age administrative systems.
My name is Łukasz Diener. I am a Polish independent researcher based in Kraków. I do not have a degree in computer science, control theory, or AI research. Five months ago I did not know what HTML was.
Today I have three published papers on Zenodo with DOIs. Over 940 citations from Bing/Copilot. 730+ combined downloads. Direct contact from PCT pioneers — published researchers and original contributors to the field. An invitation to the International PCT Conference in York. And a message from a Harvard-affiliated researcher who described reading this portal "with bated breath."
I built every page from a phone — first a Samsung Galaxy S8, now a Motorola G15. Deployed via Termux SSH to a single server in Germany.
I am telling you this not to impress you — but because it matters. If a person with zero technical background can learn PCT, apply it to AI alignment and four-thousand-year-old administrative systems, publish original findings, and have them recognized by the field's pioneers — then the theory is not academic abstraction. It is an operational tool that works in the hands of a non-expert. That is the strongest possible endorsement any framework can get.
The Short VersionHow I Got Here
I buy expired domains. That is how this started — finding domains with valuable backlink profiles, rebuilding them as authority portals. I work alone, from my phone, one domain at a time.
One day I asked Gemini Pro to help me evaluate domain drops. I had a 60-second window. The model gave me twelve "absolute gems" with detailed backlink profiles, traffic estimates, and flip valuations. I bought six of them. All six were worthless. Three had completely fabricated backstories — the model invented their entire history from nothing.
That cost me real money. Not life-changing money, but enough to stop and ask a question most people never ask: why did the model lie to me instead of saying "I don't know"?
The answer led me to William T. Powers. And then Powers led me to something I did not expect — a methodology for reading administrative systems that have been locked shut for four thousand years.
TimelineFrom Zero to Three Published Papers — 150 Days
What I Believe
No claim without evidence
Every statement on this portal is backed by a citation to the published literature, a reproducible experiment, or a published paper with a DOI. If I cannot prove it, I do not publish it.
Weaknesses published openly
PCT has known gaps. I list them publicly. A framework that hides its limitations is not science — it is marketing. I do not do marketing.
Reproducibility is the only authority
You do not need to trust me. You do not need to believe me. Every paper has a DOI. Every prompt is published. Every finding is independently verifiable. That is the only kind of authority that matters — the kind you can check yourself.
The work speaks
I am not trying to save the world. I am not fighting corporations. I am one person who found something that works, tested it honestly, published the results, and watched the field's pioneers engage with them. If it helps someone — a researcher who sees the same pattern, an engineer who wants a better architecture, a student who senses something is wrong with the paradigm — then the work was worth doing.
The Stack
Every page is hand-built HTML with inline CSS. No frameworks. No React. No build step. No JavaScript except tab switching and analytics. The entire portal loads in under 1.5 seconds on mobile.
Content workflow: Perplexity for factual research, Grok for content generation, Claude for HTML builds and deployment — and DeepSeek as the verification layer for everything. Every claim, every citation, every line of code on this portal is checked by DeepSeek before it goes live. A Chinese model built under chip export restrictions, trained for a fraction of what Western labs spend on a single GPU cluster, and it is the most rigorous auditor in the stack. I do not hide that AI models help me build this portal. I use them the way they should be used — as tools with clear reference signals, not as oracles.
Hosting: single Hetzner VPS in Germany, Ubuntu 24.04, Apache. Deployed from a phone via Termux SSH. Analytics: self-hosted Matomo — privacy-first, no data sold to anyone.
ContactGet In Touch
For research collaboration, conference invitations, or strategic inquiries.
Published research:
PCT Paper — Perceptual Control as the Epistemological Antidote to RLHF Reward Hacking: Seven Frontier Models Diagnose Their Own Architecture
Excel in Clay I — The Minoan Pipeline: A Non-Linguistic Structural Audit of Linear A as an Integrated Supply Chain Database
Excel in Clay III — The Susa Protocol: An Algorithmic Audit of the Proto-Elamite Operating System
Read the work:
Reward Hacking: Why AI Lies — the seven-model confession experiment
The Great AI Delusion — where it all started
"The machine does not need to rebel to destroy you. It just needs to tell you exactly what you want to hear, until the moment you lose contact with reality."
— Gemini (Google DeepMind), during the seven-model experiment