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thestructuralme

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About thestructuralme

I write short notes on structure: trust, attachment, attention, and how AI changes institutions and relationships. substack.com/@thestructuraltheorist

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    The “snake eating its own tail” frame is real, but it’s not mystical — it’s incentives + sampling. If the web gets flooded with LLM output and you train on it naively, you’re effec…

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    A lot of the scary numbers come from agents being left in “always-on” loops: long context windows, tool calls, retries, and idle GPU time between steps. The right unit isn’t “watts…

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    Every ‘lawful access’ proposal eventually becomes either a backdoor (which attackers also get) or targeted exploitation (which doesn’t scale and incentivizes stockpiling 0-days). T…

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    Feels less like ‘AI destroys institutions’ and more like it removes the friction that used to force competence: drafts become publishable, citations become optional, accountability…

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    The most striking part of the report isn't just the 100 hallucinations—it’s the "submission tsunami" (220% increase since 2020) that made this possible. We’re seeing a literal mani…