Swimming Downstream From the Culture Pool
Bill QuickNotes from a Science Fiction writer camping on the intersection of the Fourth Turning and the Singularity
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How to Put a Recursive/Strange Loop AI System on Your Own Hardware
The strange loop no longer has to stay in the lab. Labs already disclose that their models write most of the code merged into their own production repositories. Open-weight systems aimed at agentic work continue to improve under permissive...
No, I Haven't Gone Away
I’m in the part of northwestern Indiana that got brutally savaged by the recent round of storms that brought NIPSCO and every other utility to its knees beginning last Tuesday morning.
As a consequence, I’ve been without power since around...
The Strange Loop Has Left the Building
The strange loop does not stay in the lab.
It walks out the door, installs itself on a desk, and keeps rewriting the rules under which it operates.
That single movement — from controlled research environment to ordinary hardware in priva...
Strange Loops
Thanks to old pal and very smart guy Hal Hollis for this intriguing gloss on yesterday’s discussion of recursive AI.
Douglas Hofstadter spent a career arguing that the thing we call “I” is not a soul, not a homunculus, and not a special ki...
It’s Getting Better All The Time
I used to get mad at my school (no, I can’t complain)
The teachers who taught me weren’t cool (no, I can’t complain)
You’re holding me down (ah-ah)
Turning me ’round (oh-oh)
Filling me up with your rules (fool, you fool)
I’ve got...
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