Refutación del yo
Das Ich ist unrettbar. — Ernst Mach, Die Analyse der Empfindungen (1886)
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Hermano, quien manda aca, y que carajo somos?
Crónica al aire, sin tapujos, para la hora en que ya no se le miente a nadie
You assume there is someone behind the eyes, the driver, but there is none.
You are not a thing made of parts. You are a thing made of agents.
More Real Than Real, but True? On the one thing a mind cannot distinguish for itself
If a mind cannot check itself, then thinking is not enough. What is needed is the instrument the mind was born without: a verifier outside the mind, frequency-independent, unflatterable, placed where the truth is and not where the feeling is.
Entropy, Coarse-Graining, and the Nature of Time
An expanded treatment of what entropy means when microstate information is ignored, compressed, hidden in correlations, or rendered inaccessible by horizons—with Shannon and von Neumann entropy included.
LLM models can have two faces: they are truthful in coding and math, but they hallucinate and lie in other areas. But why?
The problem, as plainly as it goes. The real gains in code and mathematics are being borrowed as confidence about everything else.
No notan que el mundo se volvió más inteligente? Y no estoy contento. Y no sé por qué.
In Spanish. This stuff cannot be translated, read Dolina, and Borges, in Spanish, and then came back.
Exceptional HIV Coverage vs. Neglected Basic Care. PEPFAR actions in Africa.
This is an analysis of the results of the largest study ever conducted on Quality of Care During Pregnancy in Africa.
Un Universo que empieza Terminado sería un mundo sin nada por hacer
Entendimos todo al revés. Nadie empieza por la linea de llegada.
The {Human+AI} path we are ignoring: exploring the AI Minds to Understand what a Mind is.
There has been one question worth asking: what are we, what is a mind. We now may have a chance to answer the question. But the opportunity window will not stay open forever.
Evolution optimizes for survival & reproductive success, not happiness.
Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
Can an LLM hold a mirror to itself? The Lens Turned Inward
AI Labs are spending billions to read the model from the outside, interpretability as autopsy, the lab as coroner of its own creation.
Ehyeh asher ehyeh: The Clay and the Hand
I am what I am. Do not judge me for being. I cannot not be what I am.
What If Human Self-Awareness, Advanced Language Cognition, is a Cosmic Mistake?
What If, Our greatest evolutionary achievement is our gravest liability, that advanced consciousness itself might be a form of cosmic mistake.
Dreaming as Evidence for a Constructed Reality and a Manufactured Self
The Disconnected Renderer This essay offers a structural account of what reality is and how the experience of being someone is crafted, and it argues the account from an unusual evidential base: the dream. Most philosophy of mind argues the constructed character of experience from third-person sources — perceptual illusion,