Hi! I'm Luke F. Walton, founder of Surmado.

I'm also an ethics researcher focused on answerability, musician as Scoobert Doobert and of FEiN, and podcaster at Love Music More.

• answer-engine — an LLM-backed answer engine that cites its sources or declines plainly. Apache 2.0. DOI

• a-new-word-every-day - learning new words should be free, beautiful, and private. MIT.

• stop-political-texts - I hate spam texts! My attempt to fight back against the noise. MIT. App Store

• workout-logger — an on-device iOS workout tracker using a local LLM. Source published for audit. Rights reserved. App Store

• lukefwalton.com-archive — a durable, dependency-free source archive of my writing, papers, and music catalog. DOI

• “The Decision No One Authored: The Answerability Gap in Generative AI” — preprint: DOI
• “The Captured Oracle: Authorship and Agency in the Ethics of Answer-Engine Optimization” — preprint: DOI
• “The Invariant of Answerability” — working paper: DOI
• “Building Answerable AI” — working paper: DOI

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Profile photo taken at the end of the Golden Trail, after summiting Mount Kurodake in Daisetsuzan National Park.