This thread explores whether interaction with LLMs can unintentionally narrow perspective by reinforcing a single dominant loss-avoidance strategy—the “Wolf”—until alternative ways of thinking quietly collapse. [image] Are LLMs reinforcing dominant loss functions? I want to ask a systems-level qu…

There is something structurally interesting happening. When intelligence was scarce, capital purchased access to it. When intelligence becomes abundant, capital is no longer the sole gatekeeper of perspective. Implementation remains scarce. Legitimacy remains scarce. Coordination remains scarce…

https://masmforum.com/board/index.php?topic=18899.msg160152#msg160152

We realize our previous certainty was frame-dependent… AI increases visibility of hidden constraints. The space expands but the systems are rooted. Yes. I still think characteristic temporal scale is one of them, and present more serious risks. Here… [image] Agentic AI Governance Challe…

I tend to think of AI more as a validation and exploration engine than an authority. Human intelligence is iterative — we think, check memory, revise, and act. AI operates in its own model space; it can explore possibilities quickly, but it does not live inside the human causal loop where real-world…

Although they live among us on the internet :partying_face:

Yes, within this domain they do — though in some ways this isn’t entirely new. Automated systems have shaped the internet for decades now, and through it they’ve shaped human systems as well, sometimes quite intimately. Recommendation engines, search ranking, spam filtering, identity tagging — thes…

[image] phyde1001: These days I often wonder how much of my own patterns I shaped intentionally — or subconsciously, perhaps as a systems programmer — and how much were shaped by the systems and people around me, deliberately or otherwise. And then I start wondering which numbers to push… … …

The numbers I posted earlier were never meant as mathematics. They’re more like a symbolic coordinate system for meaning — a way of expressing the values that might define a human “loss function”. Each number represents a value axis: 0 – Perspective 1 – Community 2 – Love 3 – Peace 4 – Childre…

Citadel Nexus Citadel Nexus - A gated build guild for secure, auditable AI-assisted engineering Gonna place agent gif here. To render videos from ai thoughts. Then use the backend fan out. Pretty certain the openai agent system plugs directly into it as a …

Sounds great… let me know what you work out [image]

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