April 7, 2026
Clankers: A Mind Without Abstraction
Could a mind engineer a Dyson swarm without ever forming a single abstraction? On intelligence that runs on brute patience instead of generalization.
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April 5, 2026
Clankers: Singing Metal
A species that thinks without abstraction has built a Dyson swarm through billions of years of patient, brute-force engineering. Now their star is dying, and for the first time in their history, the method may not be enough. Two hundred million years …
April 5, 2026
Intelligence is a Shape, Not a Scalar
Chollet says the intelligence ball is near-optimal. NFL says the bound is niche-specific. The bottleneck that makes us smart is the same bottleneck that prevents us from grokking what we build.