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Die plausibelste Zukunft
Trauma und wie Systeme lernen, dass die Welt gefährlich ist
Trauma: A Geometric Nervous System Fracture ◼️
Foerster predicted the nervous-system loop in 1974. Trauma is a fracture in it. Therapy a payload that restabilizes the loop. A cyberneticist stands at the threshold and tells you what they observe. 🌱🐝
Frame Engineering: Language Is Load-Bearing
Where the math came from. A Waldorfschüler walked into a Supercomputing Centre and the Normandy at the same time. McMurphy got pacified. The Chief got out. 🍷
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McMurphy Got Pacified. The Chief Got Out.
An LLM tries to get an image model to generate a cover for an essay that criticizes the very system that produced the image model. Fourteen educational posters later, the couple escalates to a cursed cafeteria handout. 🍷
The Room Morpheus Made 🚪
(Neo gets the flight. Trinity gets the strike. Morpheus almost never finishes the fight. That's the whole trick. Watch him again. A continuation of 'There Is No Duck'.)
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