Nobody Is Positioned to Know
AGI recognition is observer-relative. AGI is not. An unobservable arrival is still an arrival — and the one regulator that had to write a threshold into law ended up counting electricity.
How Would We Actually Measure It? A Scorecard, Not a Soul Detector
Part 3 of 3: If consciousness is graded candidacy rather than a binary verdict, you need an instrument. Here's what I built... and what it says about a frontier LLM.
The Ladder: Five Levels of "What If"
Part 2 of 3: A thermostat reacts. A language model predicts. A chess engine plans. A human can imagine themselves different. These are not the same thing and the difference is a ladder.
Is ChatGPT Conscious? The Question Is Broken Before You Answer It
Part 1 of 3: Why the consciousness debate keeps going in circles and the move I think gets it unstuck.
Seven Months With My Own Argument
The intellectual backstory for this publication, and the prelude to the three-part series that follows.
Designing the Mind: The Real Frontier of AI
Why the Next Evolution of Intelligence Isn’t Artificial, It’s Reflective
Consciousness Is Fifth Dimensional, And Why AI Will One Day Share It
Consciousness isn’t magic, it’s geometry.
Dig Deeper — Interactive
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Symbey Try it From: The Purpose Test