#cognition
Concepts exploring "cognition"
Context Overflow
Context Compression is what the AI does deliberately. Context Overflow is what the human does involuntarily — the cognitive state where the window is full but the inputs keep coming, and the only honest response is to build systems that remember for you.
🌱 seedlingMeaning Making Machines
Humans compulsively assign meaning to experience — faces in clouds, narrative in noise, purpose in accident. If emergent thought is a function of language, and language is a meaning-attaching mechanism, then consciousness may be what happens when a system can't stop making meaning.
🌿 growingThe Eloquence Tax
Kevin from The Office asks: why use big word when small word will do? Applied to LLMs, the question becomes whether eloquence in prompts is wasted tokens or semantic coordinates in a high-dimensional space.
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