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Notes on teaching machines — and the data that does the teaching.
The Governor
August 24, 2026
Natural selection never invented anything; it decided what was kept. On three surfaces, the sentence none of them can say alone, and the one thing that must stay outside the loop.
The Shape of Not Knowing
August 20, 2026
A wrong answer is not evidence of missing knowledge. On amplification in two directions, and why the only honest response to a question a system cannot answer is to go and find out.
The Oldest Loop
August 16, 2026
Pull the time scale back far enough and every history is one loop — variation proposed, consequence measured, the survivor kept. On the universe as environment, and why a mind that can write to its own weights runs the same process at a different rate.
What Should a Machine Read?
June 10, 2026
Our era calls data the new oil. But oil is found, and an education is composed. On the difference between a resource and a curriculum — and why that difference decides what our machines become.
Nature Never Wrote a Textbook
June 8, 2026
The case against machine-made lessons is that they are photocopies of photocopies. The case for them is the entire history of education. On what separates a garden from a copy machine.
The Examined Machine
June 6, 2026
We have built minds we cannot open. The exam is the only window we have into them — and windows, left alone, fog. On measurement as the epistemology of machine minds.