Blog | Mohammad Ausaf

غَور Unsolicited, and a rather stupid blog, i agree :)

Tech

Building Searchy: Semantic Image Search for Mac

Mar 2026 12 min read

CLIP, OCR, face recognition - building a native macOS photo manager with on-device AI.

macOS ML SwiftUI

Non-Tech

Intro

Sept 2025 2 min read

Little about me, you and Us

Personal Introduction

Tech

Building a Production GPU Dispatcher

Feb 2026 15 min read

Distributed GPU orchestration, job reliability, and the bugs we shipped.

Backend Distributed Systems Infra

Non-Tech

Critique of Performative Ethical Behaviourism

Oct 2025 ~45 min read

The Persistence of Ontology - a critique of John Danaher's Ethical Behaviourism framework

Philosophy AI Ethics Consciousness

Non-Tech

Does Internet Access Lower Competition?

Feb 2026 5 min read

Supply and dilution, does it apply to gaming?

Gaming Statistics Trivia

Non-Tech

AI'vory Towers

Oct 2025 12 min read

The Discourse, The Disconnect - Thoughts about the nature of contemporary discourse over AI implications

Opinion AI Philosophy Ethics

sticky notes

Why AI Will Choose Clean Over Messy

AI's inevitable preference for systematic frameworks over human nuance

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This is a lifelong aspirational list. It is curated with my current interests and with an intent. Only completed ones are struck through.

Referenced in غَور

Welcoming Robots into the Moral CircleJohn DanaherCritique of Ethical Behaviourism
The Difference of Man and the Difference It MakesMortimer J. AdlerAI'vory Towers
Reasons and PersonsDerek ParfitAI & The Repugnant Conclusion
Well-Being and Fair DistributionMatthew AdlerAI & The Repugnant Conclusion
Seeing Like a StateJames C. ScottAI: Clean vs Messy
Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its ConsequencesBowker & StarAI: Clean vs Messy
A Theory of JusticeJohn RawlsCorporations as Kantian Subjects
Collective and Corporate ResponsibilityPeter A. FrenchCorporations as Kantian Subjects

Literature & Poetry

MasnaviRumi
Bal-e-JibrilAllama Iqbal
Asrar-e-KhudiAllama IqbalSecrets of the Self
Javid NamaAllama IqbalBook of Eternity
Tanha TanhaAhmad Faraz
Pehli BarishNasir Kazmi
Hope WantedAntonis Samarakis

Philosophy

Theory and Reality: Intro to Philosophy of SciencePeter Godfrey-Smith
CoercionAlan Wertheimer
The Structure of Scientific RevolutionsThomas S. Kuhn
Islam and EvolutionShoaib Ahmed Malik
Blackwell's Companion to Natural TheologyWLC & Pruss
Critique of Pure ReasonImmanuel Kant
Mind and CosmosThomas Nagel
Reasons and PersonsDerek Parfit
The Difference of Man and the Difference It MakesMortimer J. Adler
Welcoming Robots into the Moral CircleJohn Danaher
Well-Being and Fair DistributionMatthew Adler
Collective and Corporate ResponsibilityPeter A. French

Epistemology

Testimony: A Philosophical StudyC.J. Coady
Against MethodPaul Feyerabend
ObjectivityLorraine Daston
Philosophical InvestigationsLudwig Wittgenstein(won't even try)
The Blue and Brown BooksLudwig Wittgenstein
The Order of ThingsMichel Foucault
The Claim of ReasonStanley Cavell
Must We Mean What We Say?Stanley Cavell
The Threefold CordHilary Putnam
Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its ConsequencesBowker & Star

Political Theory

The Impossible StateWael B. Hallaq
Formations of the SecularTalal Asad
Manufacturing ConsentChomsky & Herman
RepublicPlato
Islam as a Political ReligionShabbir Akhtar
Seeing Like a StateJames C. Scott
A Theory of JusticeJohn Rawls
PalestineJoe Sacco

Islamic Spirituality

Love, Intimacy and ContentmentImam Al-Ghazali
On Being HumanDr. Osman Latiff
Divine PerfectionDr. Osman Latiff
The Alchemy of Happiness (Kimiya-yi Sa'adat)Al-Ghazali

Islamic Philosophy

Deliverance from Error (Al-Munqidh min al-Dalal)Al-Ghazali
The Incoherence of the Philosophers (Tahafut al-Falasifah)Al-Ghazali
The Incoherence of the Incoherence (Tahafut al-Tahafut)Ibn Rushd
Refinement of CharacterIbn Miskawayh

Aqeedah (Creed)

Aqeedah al-TahawiyyahImam al-Tahawi
Al-Fiqh al-AkbarImam Abu Hanifa
Al-Aqidah al-WasitiyyahIbn Taymiyyah
Kitab al-IrshadImam al-Juwayni
Kitab al-ImanIbn Taymiyyah
Dar' Ta'arud al-'Aql wa'l-NaqlIbn TaymiyyahReason & Revelation
Al-Radd 'ala al-MantiqiyyinIbn TaymiyyahRefutation of the Logicians
Minhaj al-Sunnah al-NabawiyyahIbn Taymiyyah
Al-IstiqamahIbn Taymiyyah

Fiqh & Usul

Fiqh al-SunnahSayyid Sabiq
Reliance of the Traveller (Umdat al-Salik)Ibn Naqib al-Misri
Bidayat al-MujtahidIbn Rushd
Al-MughniIbn Qudama
Al-RisalaImam al-Shafi'iUsul al-Fiqh foundation
Al-MustasfaAl-Ghazali

Theism

Quran Majeed
Reason Can Lead to GodJoshua Rasmussen
Life of Muhammad (SAWS)Martin Lings
Tafsir Ibn KathirIbn Kathir
The Experience of GodDavid Bentley Hart
Why Does the World Exist?Jim Holt
The Devil's DelusionDavid Berlinski

Liberalism & Secularism

There Is No Such Thing as Free SpeechStanley Fish
The Impossibility of Religious FreedomWinnifred Sullivan
The Disenchantment of Secular DiscourseSteven D. Smith
Islam in LiberalismJoseph Massad

Advanced Mathematics

How to Prove ItDaniel Velleman
Mathematical ProofsChartrand
Measure, Integration & Real AnalysisSheldon Axler
Probability and MeasurePatrick Billingsley
Combinatorics and Graph TheoryHarris & Hirst
Concrete MathematicsGraham & Knuth
Information TheoryGilbert Strang