link-> A reflection on Biologist Michael Levin ideas. What are we, really?
Whether something (a hurricane, a galaxy, the universe) has agency isn’t a philosophical guess. It’s a question for experiments—can it learn, adapt, or pursue goals? We don’t know until we test it.
Non-Ergodicity, the Audit Trail, and What AI Alignment Has Not Yet Learned from Clinical Research I. A Discipline Already Exists There is a discipline that already solved this problem. It took a century, a series of disasters, a regulatory architecture imposed against industry resistance, and one of the most radical
We are constituted by the trajectory that produced us, including every part we find unbearable. The harms in our past are not external to us. The shadows in the species' history are not features of other people in other times whose distance from us provides moral safety.
Information is not merely a description of the physical world; it is the fundamental substrate from which the physical world emerges.
On the Axiom of the Congruent Core, and Why It Is the Only Foundation That Survives Investigation in Any Substrate