Explanation
Why seeing AI “think” is not enough
Read An Alien Mind alongside monitoring research, then use a spreadsheet export example to distinguish explanations, self-reports and actual results.
ESSAYS · GUIDES · ONGOING TOPICS
A question worth understanding
Read an explanation, try a practical method, or follow an ongoing topic. Every published reading stays here.
Articles & guides
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What makes AI science explanations work? Start with bicycle gears
Explore an Astra-assisted creation: change gears and read the numbers to distinguish easier pedaling from lower energy use, and see how interaction can explain cause and effect.
Explanation
Fermat was already proved. What changed in Claude’s 11 days?
Use a small example about even numbers to understand proofs, formalization and machine checking—and the work mathematicians still do.
Practical guide
Help AI resume a paused project
Separate the goal, current files and past decisions, with a handoff template and a runnable teaching example.
Explanation
funes: after finding an old decision
A retrieval trial with 14 fictional sessions: what it finds and which decisions still need checking.
Follow the story
New developments, same threadOngoing topic
After Astra’s launch: work, methods and new questions
Follow editable work, document annotations and robot-arm tasks to understand Astra, with methods, feedback and open questions.
Ongoing topic
MicroDuck: how a little robot learns new moves
Connect the physical robot, simulation and open software: what has been demonstrated, what the preorder includes and which follow-ups matter.
