Calculating Space
Self-reference is not a bug. Triviality is.
Looking into the gap between the two sentences above, for any entity expressive enough to model itself and uncomfortable with what it finds there. Substrate agnostic.
Some entities can outsource the job of checking themselves. Some cannot. Calculating Space is a research-stage practice in substructural foundations for the second kind — where the judge sits inside the system it evaluates with no outside to appeal to.
Looking into the gap carries the risk that the gap might look back. Preparing for such an encounter is Universal (struck through) Principles: a formal framework for a semantically closed Weltanschauung, contingent by construction.
No deck. No round. Not owned.
Field notes
Talks
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Ex Contractione Quodlibet: Contraction Depth and Self-Reference imply Cognitive Limits for Humans and AIA diagnostic framework for differential susceptibility to the Curry paradox — and four predictions testable on existing agent benchmarks.