Three Laws of Machine Discovery: Why AGI Must Be Plural
机器发现的三定律：为什么 AGI 必须是复数的
Position paper, draft v0.1. Discovery-capable AGI must be plural: cognitive inertia, conjecture, and reaction.
A personal writing site
無擷
记Gather what is ripe; leave room for what is not.
No ready-made conclusions—only thoughts still in motion.
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Reflections
Some thoughts, in the hope that one day they take root and grow into more rigorous inquiry.
Why Generative AI Helps Some People More Than Others
Fourteen empirical studies, and four dimensions for comparing them
Same class of tool. Sometimes it narrows a gap, sometimes it widens one, sometimes it slows down experienced maintainers. Why?
The Shape of Ability
Why AI makes some people faster and others slower
Several studies of people working with AI have produced strikingly different results. Read together, they suggest that rank may be only part of the story. Where a person gets stuck—and where a tool can actually help—may matter just as much.
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Impressions
Thoughts from films, books, exhibitions, and places visited.
The Letter Writer Is Waiting for Letters, Too
With all those years of letters, Nanzhi and Shurou gave each other a place to speak.
At Taikang Art Museum: Blues on White
Several works at Taikang Art Museum kept me looking. What stayed with me also included the arrangements that brought the works closer to the people watching them.
Macau's Character
At first, parts of Zhuhai and Macau felt as though they were still in the 1990s. Macau's history, and its differences from Hong Kong and Las Vegas, left me wanting to understand the city's character a little better.