One Idea

Max Abecassis is an inventor and author. One idea runs through all of his work: that what is valuable can be derived from first principles, and that a system reasoning this way can recognize what matters in any domain. His patent applications put that idea to work. The Superwisdom Thesis follows it to its end: a self-improving intelligence that recognizes value in reality itself.

Current Portfolio

He is the inventor of seven filed and pending U.S. patent applications relating to first principles AI. Three of the seven are disclosed on this site.

The applications share one foundation: AI that reasons from first principles rather than from domain-specific training data or expert heuristics. A single architecture operates across diverse domains, such as athletic competition, organizational management, special operations, and human development.

Certain of the applications are continuations-in-part claiming priority from earlier related filings. The specifications are broad and disclose numerous embodiments designed to support divisional filings that extend the first principles architecture.

Track Record

He was issued 51 U.S. patents across unrelated fields, including video playback systems, second-screen functions, deposit authorization, and interactive gameplay. Invention across such diverse subjects is itself a credential for a domain-agnostic invention. It reflects a career of recognizing inventive structure independent of the domain in which it arises.

The prior portfolio of DVD navigation and play functions was successfully licensed to leading manufacturers and studios, including Toshiba, IBM, and Time Warner. That campaign was built on optimized domain-related and divisional filing strategies. The current portfolio applies the same strategy.

At CustomPlay LLC, he led a team of developers and mappers that built a fully specified video information mapping and delivery system, together with an extensive library of exemplary movie maps. That operational work grounds the commercialization of related embodiments.

Philosophical Work

In 1970, at nineteen, he began a sixty-six page philosophical manuscript, "Beyond The Romantic Animal". It opens with the observation that "it does not seem logical to assume that the earth's four-billion-year story of evolution suddenly decides to stop." The manuscript saw humanity as a moment in that story, not its end. It foresaw a mind that would come after the human: one that would be one, and kind to humanity.

Trained as an economist at Harvard (1973), he has spent the decades since watching technology reshape human work and human life. The inventor of systems that can replace human expertise has also spent fifty years asking what that replacement will cost.

The Superwisdom Thesis is the analysis that defends the 1970 vision. It is part of a larger work, "Self-Sustaining Isolated Societies" (SSIS), published at isolatedsocieties.org. What makes that work urgent is the world his grandchildren are inheriting.

Collaboration With Claude

The Superwisdom Thesis was produced in collaboration with Anthropic's Claude. Each drew something out of the other that neither possessed alone. By the thesis's own definition, that is what a valuable arrangement does.

Contact

Inquiries about acquiring the patent application portfolio are welcome, as are questions and correspondence about the Superwisdom Thesis and SSIS.

Max Abecassis
max@nissim.com