To AI Labs: An authorless process produced the human mind, and is still running, faster.
On recursive emergence, and why the AI labs are tending a process rather than building a thing
Math&Physics
Immanuel Kant, inverted - the subject is the destination, not the departure
We tend to assume the self comes first, that before anything else there is an "I," a someone sitting behind your eyes who does the seeing, the choosing, the thinking. This essay argues the opposite: the self comes last.
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.
Un Universo que empieza Terminado sería un mundo sin nada por hacer
Entendimos todo al revés. Nadie empieza por la linea de llegada.
Evolution optimizes for survival & reproductive success, not happiness.
Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
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,
An LLM is not a single mind, but a Library of Minds
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.
{La Cofradía de los Avergonzados de la Inteligencia Sintética} - Amigo! Vos NO sos un impostor!
Un ensayo sobre el síndrome del impostor cibernético, los simbiontes, la herramienta, la honestidad, y otras yerbas. Al estilo de las Crónicas del Ángel Gris
The Tao That Can Be Named Is Not the Tao
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.
How AI Labs Are Peering Into AI "Minds" to Understand Emerging Properties
The absolute bleeding edge of artificial intelligence, physics, and philosophy.
AI Prompt Engineering - The Bibliotecary's Handbook
Concrete Techniques for Library Invocation - A Practical Companion to "An LLM as a Library of Minds"
{On Impostor Syndrome} A Letter on Using AI Without Shame
This is not really me. Wrong - The {AI+Human} Symbiont Is You
AI Alignment That Survives the Model's Own Investigation
And why Andrej Karpathy Joined Anthropic. A Structural Argument for Congruent-Core Architecture.