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收藏莫比乌斯带：我们生活在一个没有内外的系统里
我们正生活在一个莫比乌斯带里，但制度设计仍假设世界是圆柱体。语言模型训练于人类文本，产出文本，人类阅读后写出新文本，新文本又成为训练数据——输入与输出是同一表面，没有干净的分界线。指标管理同理：测量是为了管理，测量本身成为目标，目标扭曲行为，行为改变系统，系统又改变测量。几乎所有我们关心的系统都有这个半扭转，而治理它们的机构仍假设内外分明。
Artificial Creativity Manifesto
Artificial Intelligence is here. The next frontier is Artificial Creativity. Current AI systems are great (and will get better) at coding, math, science etc. i.e. domains where there is a verifiable a... 
On the Wave-Particle Duality of Consciousness
Physics spent decades fighting over whether light was a wave or a particle. The answer turned out to be: yes. Consciousness might work the same way. Below is a short meditation on this possibility. 1....
AI is not a NOT a horse (2023)
“My muse is not a horse and I am in no horse race and if indeed she was, still I would not harness her to this tumbrel — this bloody cart of severed heads and glittering prizes. My muse may spook! May...
The Cambrian Explosion of Software
What happened to cells 541 million years ago is happening to software today. The trigger for cells was rapid increase in the availability of oxygen which allowed more complex, more interconnected and ...
The Real Four Horsemen
An Etiological Framework of Biological and Cognitive Aging "How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly." — Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises I have been thinking about death rece... 
To Hell With AGI Lets Solve DCT
The AI discourse is currently drowning in its own intellectual masturbation. Everyone's jerking off about whether ChatGPT can pass the bar exam or generate a pharmaceutical patent or simulate a convin... 
Cargo Cult Intelligence
or why you should allow your LLM to get punched in the mouth The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard Feynman There is a difference be...
AI's Near Future: Choose Your Quadrant
I have no idea what the longer-term future of AI, software, humans, robots, and the world at large has in store. And I don't believe anyone else knows with any degree of certainty. But the mid-term fu... 
Declaration of Interdependence
In 1776, a group of rebellious colonists declared their independence from the British crown. Today, we need the opposite: a declaration of interdependence. Not because independence was wrong, but beca...
Sculptors And Gardeners
on the origin of a good line, two ways of creativity and how to make LLMs better at writing Part 1 (poetic): The soil and the sword How does a powerful line emerge? As writers of words, music, or code... 
Seek-Reject-Frame: a new proposed architecture for Freudian Agents
a proposed architecture for Freudian Agents Current agentic patterns: the assembly line, the org chart, the parliament Most agentic approaches and frameworks today are following the same basic pattern...
The Beauty Of A Button In The Age Of Universal Basic Intelligence
In the beginning was the button. A simple mechanical interface between human intention and technological action. Press here, and something happens there. The directness of this connection shaped our e...
Yak Yak Shmuk Fuck
The seemingly random string of nonsense words that we instinctively dismiss could be the key to understanding where human language ends and machine language begins. I've been thinking about this a lot...
Fucking With The Wind
There are two ways of dealing with the wind. You can build walls to shield yourself from it, or you can learn to dance with it. Most of human progress has been about building better walls - both liter...
Telescopic Content
I find the best non-fiction writing to be fractal, or telescopic. It scales nicely with the amount of attention that you decide to bestow on it, and still makes sense and is tightly packed at every sc... 
Creative Midwifery
The most interesting things in life are not built, but born. You don't build a child, you nurture it. You don't build a song, you listen for it and coax it into existence. You don't build a great comp...
Twenty Three Points on Microconsciousness
A microconsciously independent digital organism (MIDO) lives in a datasphere, but is separated from it. The information membrane that separates MIDO from the rest of the datasphere is porous. Sensors ...
Artificial Agency Ladder (an essay written by Claude and me)
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them" Alfred Whitehead As I write these words – or rather, as an AI assistant collabo...