Entity profile: This page documents the background and methodology of Łukasz Diener — an independent researcher applying Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) to AI alignment, to measurement architecture in organisations, and to undeciphered Bronze Age administrative systems.
My name is Łukasz Diener. I am an independent researcher based in Kraków, and I work on one question applied to very different systems: can this system be contradicted by anything outside itself?
Six published audits ask it — of the training architecture of seven frontier language models, of the Free Energy Principle, of thirty organisations whose reported indicators stayed healthy while the process behind them failed, and of three Bronze Age administrative corpora that nobody can read. The undeciphered corpora are the hardest available test of the method, because there is no meaning to fall back on.
All of it is open access with permanent DOIs, and every protocol is published in full. Over 2,900 citations in Bing and Copilot answers. More than 1,000 downloads. Sustained correspondence with the researchers who built the field. The AI panel at the International PCT Conference in York this October.
The method transfers because it does not require understanding the system's content. It asks two structural questions — is there a reference the system actually holds, and is there an independent channel that can contradict its report — and both are answerable before any interpretive claim is made. That is why the same audit runs on a language model and on a four-thousand-year-old clay tablet.
The Short VersionHow I Got Here
I buy expired domains. That is how this started — finding domains with valuable backlink profiles and rebuilding them as authority portals. I work alone, 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 Six Published Audits — Nine Records
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 build step, no JavaScript beyond 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 over SSH. Analytics: self-hosted Matomo — privacy-first, nothing sold to anyone.
ContactGet In Touch
For research collaboration, conference invitations, or applied work. If you ran the architecture audit on a system you are responsible for, send me what it returned.
Published research — full data, corpora and stated limits on the research index:
No Argument for the World — A Control-Theoretic Audit of RLHF's Missing Runtime Loop, and the Verification Architecture That Closes It Without an Oracle
The Metric Was Green — A Perceptual-Control Audit of Metric Gaming Across 30 Systems, and the Comparator Architecture That Detects It
The Description Dressed as a Law — A Structural Audit of the Free Energy Principle (v2.0)
Excel in Clay I — The Minoan Pipeline: A Non-Linguistic Structural Audit of Linear A as an Integrated Supply Chain Database
Excel in Clay II — The Meluhha Operating System: A Mathematical Reconstruction of the Indus Valley Non-Linguistic Cargo-Tag Database
Excel in Clay III — The Susa Protocol: An Algorithmic Audit of the Proto-Elamite Operating System
Read the work:
The Architecture Audit Kit — three prompts, run it yourself in ten minutes
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