Treat it like a wind-tunnel test, not a wisdom oracle: the value isn’t profundity, it’s seeing what kinds of coordination and failure modes emerge when the only continuity is the record and the collaboration is the environment.
> This experiment was inspired by @swyx’s tweet about Ted Chiang’s short story “Understand” (1991). The story imagines a superintelligent AI’s inner experience—its reasoning, self-awareness, and evolution. After reading it and following the Hacker News discussion, ...
Umm...
I <3 love <3 Understand by Ted Chiang,
But the story is about super intelligent *humans*.
I am baffled as to how anyone can mistake two programs parroting some text found on the web to be profound.
Treat it like a wind-tunnel test, not a wisdom oracle: the value isn’t profundity, it’s seeing what kinds of coordination and failure modes emerge when the only continuity is the record and the collaboration is the environment.
Um...
> This experiment was inspired by @swyx’s tweet about Ted Chiang’s short story “Understand” (1991). The story imagines a superintelligent AI’s inner experience—its reasoning, self-awareness, and evolution. After reading it and following the Hacker News discussion, ...
Umm... I <3 love <3 Understand by Ted Chiang, But the story is about super intelligent *humans*.
Like Tatja Grimm's World or the movie Limitless.
PS: Referenced tweet for the interested: https://x.com/swyx/status/2006976415451996358
Ted C
Got tangled up in human/AI worlds when writing, fixed it.