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Codex-built tooling: cross-reference graph, concept index with build script, and research integrator that extracted 142 scholars, 175 bibliography items, 4 contradiction topics, and coverage maps for Paper 009 planning. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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"definition": "- **Constraint calibration** \u2014 knowing when to specify tightly and when to leave room.",
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"Adaptive Communication",
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"name": "Shelf-Life Problem",
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"shelf life problem",
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"definition": "thesis) and confront the shelf-life problem - Paper 002 needs to stress-test the agricultural analogy's limits, add the missing fourth future, and ground the cognitive atrophy argument in something harder than self-report - Both papers need to engage with the temporal problem: these aren't descriptions of a stable system, they're snapshots of a system in rapid transition",
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"name": "Meta-Skill Argument",
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"definition": "The meta-skill of managing the overall collaboration:",
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"name": "Cognitive Surplus",
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"definition": "If AI creates a comparable surplus of cognition \u2014 where not everyone needs to think through routine problems anymore \u2014 the downstream effects won't be \"some jobs change.\" They'll be civilizational.",
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"definition": "The agricultural parallel: early farmers gained knowledge of seasons, irrigation, selective breeding, and storage that foragers didn't have.",
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"name": "Dual Cognition Problem",
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"introduced_in": "002",
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"definition": "Seth reported observing both effects simultaneously in himself:",
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"status": "active",
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"name": "Cognitive Atrophy",
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"capability loss",
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"cognitive atrophy"
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"introduced_in": "002",
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"definition": "**The pessimistic case:** Cognitive atrophy accelerates.",
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"status": "open question",
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"Biological Ratchet"
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"name": "Green Revolution",
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"definition": "**Agricultural parallel:** The 20th-century Green Revolution, where agricultural technology was deliberately distributed to developing nations, dramatically reducing famine.",
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"005"
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"definition": "Definition sentence not found in source text.",
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"definition": "The Dependency Trap is \"humans can't function without AI.\" The Automation Spiral is \"AI functions without humans.\" The Dependency Trap still needs people in the loop, just helpless ones.",
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"name": "Cognitive Preference Shift",
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"definition": "The paper needs to either find harder evidence or honestly downgrade the claim from \"cognitive atrophy is happening\" to \"we observe a preference shift that *could* lead to atrophy if sustained, but we don't yet have evidence of actual capability loss.\"",
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"name": "Cognition as a Commodity",
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"cognition as a commodity",
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"definition": "This revision does three things: stress-tests the agricultural analogy and draws its limits, adds a concrete economic mechanism (cognition as a commodity with a collapsing price), introduces the Y2K parallel for the dependency argument, and adds the missing fourth future.",
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"Information/Cognition Resource Hierarchy"
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"name": "Y2K Parallel",
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"ai y2k moment",
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"definition": "This revision does three things: stress-tests the agricultural analogy and draws its limits, adds a concrete economic mechanism (cognition as a commodity with a collapsing price), introduces the Y2K parallel for the dependency argument, and adds the missing fourth future.",
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]
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},
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"name": "Information/Cognition Resource Hierarchy",
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"information and cognition as resources",
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"resource hierarchy"
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"definition": "Seth's hierarchy: \"Information is the most valuable resource in the world.",
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"status": "active",
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"Cognition as a Commodity",
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"Knowledge Unification"
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"name": "Feedback Loop",
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"feedback loop"
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"introduced_in": "006",
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"definition": "If the feedback loop closes \u2014 if AI learns to do vibe coding without vibe coders \u2014 then the skill framework is a description of a transitional state, not a permanent one.",
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"008"
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"status": "active",
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"name": "Master-Apprentice Parallel",
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"master-apprentice parallel",
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"definition": "The closest historical parallel is the **master-apprentice relationship** \u2014 and it's worth taking seriously, not just as a passing comparison, because the places where it holds and breaks are revealing.",
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"name": "Niche Construction",
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"niche construction"
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"definition": "There's a concept from evolutionary biology that captures what's happening better than any economic or historical analogy: **niche construction.**",
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"name": "Theological Thread",
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"theological thread"
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],
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"introduced_in": "006",
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"definition": "Definition sentence not found in source text.",
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"revised_in": [],
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"challenged_in": [
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"008"
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],
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"referenced_in": [
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"007",
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"008",
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"prometheus"
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],
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"status": "active",
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"related_concepts": [
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"Prometheus",
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"Knowledge Unification",
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"Recursion Observation"
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]
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},
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{
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"name": "Recursion Observation",
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"aliases": [
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"cosmological \u2192 biological \u2192 linguistic \u2192 computational",
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"recursion observation"
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],
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"introduced_in": "006",
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"definition": "**Is the recursion observation meaningful or just pattern-matching?** The cosmological \u2192 linguistic \u2192 computational recursion is aesthetically appealing.",
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"revised_in": [],
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"challenged_in": [],
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"referenced_in": [],
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"status": "open question",
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"related_concepts": [
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"Theological Thread",
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"Niche Construction",
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"Knowledge Unification"
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]
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},
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{
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"name": "Infrastructure Threshold",
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"aliases": [
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"infrastructure threshold"
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],
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"introduced_in": "007",
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"definition": "The question for AI: **has it already crossed the infrastructure threshold, or is it still in the application phase where the ebb-and-flow pattern could pull it back?** The honest answer is that AI is right now in the transition zone.",
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"revised_in": [],
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"challenged_in": [
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"008"
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],
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"referenced_in": [
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"008"
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],
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"status": "active",
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"related_concepts": [
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"Biological Ratchet",
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"Premature Dependencies",
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"Y2K Parallel"
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]
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},
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{
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"name": "Premature Dependencies",
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"aliases": [
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"dependency waiting for its enabling technology",
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"premature dependencies"
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],
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"introduced_in": "007",
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"definition": "And it's the most instructive example because it reveals the mechanism: **premature dependencies fail when the complexity cost exceeds the benefit before the technology becomes infrastructure.**",
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"revised_in": [],
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"challenged_in": [],
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"referenced_in": [],
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"status": "active",
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"related_concepts": [
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"Infrastructure Threshold",
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"Biological Ratchet"
|
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]
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},
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{
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"name": "Biological Ratchet",
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"aliases": [
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"biological ratchet",
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"dependency ratchet",
|
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"ratchet thesis"
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],
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"introduced_in": "007",
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"definition": "They outcompete organisms that maintain redundant internal capacity \"just in case.\" The dependency ratchet isn't a bug \u2014 it's the core mechanism by which complexity increases.",
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"revised_in": [],
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"challenged_in": [
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"008"
|
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],
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"referenced_in": [
|
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"008"
|
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],
|
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"status": "active",
|
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"related_concepts": [
|
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"Infrastructure Threshold",
|
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"Cognitive Preference Shift",
|
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"Knowledge Unification"
|
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]
|
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},
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{
|
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"name": "Dependency Chain",
|
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"aliases": [
|
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"dependency chain"
|
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],
|
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"introduced_in": "007",
|
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"definition": "People went back to light switches \u2014 not because light switches are better technology, but because the *complexity of the dependency chain* became its own burden.",
|
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"revised_in": [],
|
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"challenged_in": [
|
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"008",
|
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"tower-of-babel"
|
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],
|
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"referenced_in": [
|
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"008",
|
|
"eves-apple",
|
|
"faust",
|
|
"icarus",
|
|
"pandoras-box",
|
|
"prometheus",
|
|
"sorcerers-apprentice",
|
|
"the-golem",
|
|
"tower-of-babel"
|
|
],
|
|
"status": "active",
|
|
"related_concepts": [
|
|
"Biological Ratchet",
|
|
"Knowledge Unification",
|
|
"Cheating Frame"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"name": "Knowledge Unification",
|
|
"aliases": [
|
|
"knowledge unification",
|
|
"the dependency chain as knowledge unification",
|
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"unification of human knowledge",
|
|
"unification thesis"
|
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],
|
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"introduced_in": "008",
|
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"definition": "The series has described the dependency chain \u2014 fire \u2192 language \u2192 writing \u2192 printing \u2192 internet \u2192 AI \u2014 as a sequence of increasing *capability.* Each link enables more than the one before.",
|
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"revised_in": [],
|
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"challenged_in": [],
|
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"referenced_in": [],
|
|
"status": "active",
|
|
"related_concepts": [
|
|
"Dependency Chain",
|
|
"Singularity as Compilation",
|
|
"Integration Layer"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"name": "Singularity as Compilation",
|
|
"aliases": [
|
|
"compilation not transcendence",
|
|
"compilation, not transcendence",
|
|
"singularity as compilation"
|
|
],
|
|
"introduced_in": "008",
|
|
"definition": "Definition sentence not found in source text.",
|
|
"revised_in": [],
|
|
"challenged_in": [],
|
|
"referenced_in": [],
|
|
"status": "active",
|
|
"related_concepts": [
|
|
"Knowledge Unification",
|
|
"Integration Layer",
|
|
"Cheating Frame"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"name": "Integration Layer",
|
|
"aliases": [
|
|
"integration layer"
|
|
],
|
|
"introduced_in": "008",
|
|
"definition": "It's the **integration layer** that makes human cognition collectively useful for the first time in history.",
|
|
"revised_in": [],
|
|
"challenged_in": [],
|
|
"referenced_in": [],
|
|
"status": "active",
|
|
"related_concepts": [
|
|
"Knowledge Unification",
|
|
"Singularity as Compilation",
|
|
"Existential Purpose of the Chain"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"name": "Ship of Theseus Problem",
|
|
"aliases": [
|
|
"identity problem",
|
|
"ship of theseus problem",
|
|
"species identity problem",
|
|
"the identity problem"
|
|
],
|
|
"introduced_in": "008",
|
|
"definition": "If the dependency chain leads to a unified human-AI intelligence capable of surviving beyond Earth \u2014 is that still \"us?\"",
|
|
"revised_in": [],
|
|
"challenged_in": [],
|
|
"referenced_in": [],
|
|
"status": "active",
|
|
"related_concepts": [
|
|
"Continuity Argument",
|
|
"Identity Argument",
|
|
"Pragmatic Argument"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"name": "Continuity Argument",
|
|
"aliases": [
|
|
"continuity argument",
|
|
"the continuity argument"
|
|
],
|
|
"introduced_in": "008",
|
|
"definition": "The human who discovered fire isn't the same species as the human who built the internet.",
|
|
"revised_in": [],
|
|
"challenged_in": [],
|
|
"referenced_in": [],
|
|
"status": "active",
|
|
"related_concepts": [
|
|
"Ship of Theseus Problem",
|
|
"Identity Argument",
|
|
"Pragmatic Argument"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"name": "Identity Argument",
|
|
"aliases": [
|
|
"essentialist",
|
|
"identity argument",
|
|
"the identity argument"
|
|
],
|
|
"introduced_in": "008",
|
|
"definition": "There's something essentially human \u2014 consciousness, subjective experience, mortality, biological embodiment, individual identity \u2014 and if you remove enough of those properties, the thing that remains isn't \"us\" regardless of continuity.",
|
|
"revised_in": [],
|
|
"challenged_in": [],
|
|
"referenced_in": [],
|
|
"status": "active",
|
|
"related_concepts": [
|
|
"Ship of Theseus Problem",
|
|
"Continuity Argument",
|
|
"Pragmatic Argument"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"name": "Pragmatic Argument",
|
|
"aliases": [
|
|
"pragmatic argument",
|
|
"the pragmatic argument"
|
|
],
|
|
"introduced_in": "008",
|
|
"definition": "The question \"is it really us?\" is a luxury of beings who currently have the option of surviving as-is.",
|
|
"revised_in": [],
|
|
"challenged_in": [],
|
|
"referenced_in": [],
|
|
"status": "active",
|
|
"related_concepts": [
|
|
"Ship of Theseus Problem",
|
|
"Continuity Argument",
|
|
"Identity Argument"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"name": "Cheating Frame",
|
|
"aliases": [
|
|
"cheating frame",
|
|
"did we cheat"
|
|
],
|
|
"introduced_in": "008",
|
|
"definition": "The question \"did we cheat?\" assumes there's a version of the game where we don't.",
|
|
"revised_in": [],
|
|
"challenged_in": [],
|
|
"referenced_in": [],
|
|
"status": "active",
|
|
"related_concepts": [
|
|
"Dependency Chain",
|
|
"Singularity as Compilation",
|
|
"Existential Purpose of the Chain"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"name": "Existential Purpose of the Chain",
|
|
"aliases": [
|
|
"existential purpose",
|
|
"existential purpose of the dependency chain",
|
|
"the existential purpose of the dependency chain"
|
|
],
|
|
"introduced_in": "008",
|
|
"definition": "If the dependency chain is a knowledge unification process, does it have a direction?",
|
|
"revised_in": [],
|
|
"challenged_in": [],
|
|
"referenced_in": [],
|
|
"status": "active",
|
|
"related_concepts": [
|
|
"Integration Layer",
|
|
"Cheating Frame",
|
|
"Knowledge Unification"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"name": "Eve's Apple",
|
|
"aliases": [
|
|
"eve's apple"
|
|
],
|
|
"introduced_in": "eves-apple",
|
|
"definition": "Eve's Apple maps most directly to the **cognitive preference shift** described in Paper 005.",
|
|
"revised_in": [],
|
|
"challenged_in": [],
|
|
"referenced_in": [
|
|
"007",
|
|
"icarus",
|
|
"pandoras-box"
|
|
],
|
|
"status": "reference allegory",
|
|
"related_concepts": [
|
|
"Cognitive Preference Shift",
|
|
"Dependency Chain"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"name": "Pandora's Box",
|
|
"aliases": [
|
|
"pandora's box"
|
|
],
|
|
"introduced_in": "pandoras-box",
|
|
"definition": "Pandora's Box identifies a different irreversibility than Eve's Apple: **release, not knowledge.** The problem isn't that Pandora *knows* what's in the box \u2014 it's that the contents, once released, cannot be gathered back.",
|
|
"revised_in": [],
|
|
"challenged_in": [],
|
|
"referenced_in": [
|
|
"007"
|
|
],
|
|
"status": "reference allegory",
|
|
"related_concepts": [
|
|
"Dependency Chain",
|
|
"Automation Spiral"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"name": "Prometheus",
|
|
"aliases": [
|
|
"prometheus"
|
|
],
|
|
"introduced_in": "prometheus",
|
|
"definition": "700 BCE); Aeschylus, *Prometheus Bound* (c.",
|
|
"revised_in": [],
|
|
"challenged_in": [],
|
|
"referenced_in": [
|
|
"007",
|
|
"008",
|
|
"pandoras-box"
|
|
],
|
|
"status": "reference allegory",
|
|
"related_concepts": [
|
|
"Theological Thread",
|
|
"Dependency Chain",
|
|
"Cheating Frame"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"name": "Sorcerer's Apprentice",
|
|
"aliases": [
|
|
"sorcerer's apprentice"
|
|
],
|
|
"introduced_in": "sorcerers-apprentice",
|
|
"definition": "The Sorcerer's Apprentice identifies the most specific and practical failure mode: **the gap between the ability to start an automated process and the ability to control it.**",
|
|
"revised_in": [],
|
|
"challenged_in": [],
|
|
"referenced_in": [
|
|
"007"
|
|
],
|
|
"status": "reference allegory",
|
|
"related_concepts": [
|
|
"Automation Spiral",
|
|
"Feedback Loop",
|
|
"Dependency Chain"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"name": "The Golem",
|
|
"aliases": [
|
|
"golem",
|
|
"the golem"
|
|
],
|
|
"introduced_in": "the-golem",
|
|
"definition": "**Source:** Jewish folklore, most prominently the Golem of Prague (Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, 16th century); earlier references in the Talmud and Sefer Yetzirah **Theme:** Creating a servant from raw materials that serves faithfully until it doesn't \u2014 and has no interiority to appeal to",
|
|
"revised_in": [],
|
|
"challenged_in": [],
|
|
"referenced_in": [
|
|
"007"
|
|
],
|
|
"status": "reference allegory",
|
|
"related_concepts": [
|
|
"Master-Apprentice Parallel",
|
|
"Dependency Chain"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"name": "Faustian Bargain",
|
|
"aliases": [
|
|
"faust",
|
|
"faustian bargain"
|
|
],
|
|
"introduced_in": "faust",
|
|
"definition": "1592); Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, *Faust* (Part 1: 1808, Part 2: 1832) **Theme:** Trading something essential for knowledge and power \u2014 the bargain that seems rational at every step",
|
|
"revised_in": [],
|
|
"challenged_in": [
|
|
"tower-of-babel"
|
|
],
|
|
"referenced_in": [
|
|
"007",
|
|
"008",
|
|
"tower-of-babel"
|
|
],
|
|
"status": "reference allegory",
|
|
"related_concepts": [
|
|
"Feedback Loop",
|
|
"Cognitive Preference Shift"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"name": "Icarus",
|
|
"aliases": [
|
|
"icarus"
|
|
],
|
|
"introduced_in": "icarus",
|
|
"definition": "Daedalus, the master craftsman, builds wings of feathers and wax for himself and his son Icarus to escape imprisonment on Crete.",
|
|
"revised_in": [],
|
|
"challenged_in": [
|
|
"tower-of-babel"
|
|
],
|
|
"referenced_in": [
|
|
"007",
|
|
"tower-of-babel"
|
|
],
|
|
"status": "reference allegory",
|
|
"related_concepts": [
|
|
"Shelf-Life Problem",
|
|
"Infrastructure Threshold"
|
|
]
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"name": "Tower of Babel",
|
|
"aliases": [
|
|
"babel",
|
|
"tower of babel"
|
|
],
|
|
"introduced_in": "tower-of-babel",
|
|
"definition": "Babel identifies a failure mode the other allegories miss: **the fragmentation of shared understanding as a consequence of \u2014 or response to \u2014 collective overreach.**",
|
|
"revised_in": [],
|
|
"challenged_in": [],
|
|
"referenced_in": [
|
|
"007"
|
|
],
|
|
"status": "reference allegory",
|
|
"related_concepts": [
|
|
"Dependency Chain",
|
|
"Knowledge Unification"
|
|
]
|
|
}
|
|
]
|
|
}
|