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.
The problem, as plainly as it goes. The real gains in code and mathematics are being borrowed as confidence about everything else.
In Spanish. This stuff cannot be translated, read Dolina, and Borges, in Spanish, and then came back.
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.
Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
AI Labs are spending billions to read the model from the outside, interpretability as autopsy, the lab as coroner of its own creation.
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,
It is a library that contains many minds as latent patterns, drawn from the vast corpus on which the model was trained. When you address the library casually, you receive averaged output, competent but anonymous.
The human experience is absolute beauty, and we take it for granted precisely because we have never once been without it, never worn anything else, never known a single second without it.
The absolute bleeding edge of artificial intelligence, physics, and philosophy.
Concrete Techniques for Library Invocation - A Practical Companion to "An LLM as a Library of Minds"
La comprensión no es un ingrediente necesario de la creación. Es opcional. Casi nunca está.
This is not really me. Wrong - The {AI+Human} Symbiont Is You
And why Andrej Karpathy Joined Anthropic. A Structural Argument for Congruent-Core Architecture.
The Dice are not noise. They are the precondition under which Causation becomes a Knowable category at all.