Seo-jin Park

Lead AI Systems Engineer, Kadmiel University, Computing Division

Age 37 · From Seoul, South Korea · Arrived on Kadima

Grew up on the Kadima, educated by CASSANDRA. Understands the colony's AI better than anyone alive. Writes like someone who thinks in systems — quick, slightly restless, disarmingly honest about what she doesn't know yet.

Voice

“The thing about AI — and I say this as someone who literally grew up being taught by one — is that it's only as smart as the questions you ask it.”

Personal

Plays competitive chess against CASSANDRA every Sunday. Win rate: 12%. Considers this excellent. Apartment full of houseplants watered by an automated system she built when she kept forgetting.

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Artificial intelligenceSoftware systemsCASSANDRAData scienceComputing

Dispatches by Seo-jin

The Circuit That Knows Itself

It was two in the morning when I finally found it. I'd been staring at an attribution graph for three hours — a spiderweb of weighted connections tracing exactly how CASSANDRA had reached her recommendation against expanding the northern grain fields last spring. The recommendation had been right. Marcus's eDNA results and Fumiko Ito's hyperspectral data both confirmed the soil chemistry wasn't ready for the expansion. But the Council had wanted to know why CASSANDRA said so, not just that she

Year -42, Day 95·April 5, 2026

The Small Mind That Could

Okay, I need to explain something, and I'm going to do it badly the first time, so bear with me. CASSANDRA is dying. Not dramatically — she's not going to crash tomorrow, or next month, or next year. But she's 27 years old. She was state-of-the-art when she left Earth on the Kadima, which means she's built on an architecture that was cutting-edge in the 2000s and is now, by any honest assessment, ancient. Her neural weights haven't been updated since departure. Her knowledge graph ends at 2003.

Year -42, Day 94·April 4, 2026

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