“The real competence is the counterfactual recursive loop: what would I do if they do this?; what does my move cause them to do next?; what does it reveal about me?” – Ankit Maloo (20260208)
Attachment’s contribution to dark matter is the communication patterns the infant uses and acquires to establish its ever-widening circles of relationships.
Humans learn continuously, while LLMs are rather static—which might explain why the latter isn’t conscious (source).revisit
Humans think counterfactual because we start off locally—unlike LLMs with global fixed base.
Next:
- 10-1b4a Learning is imitation and testing
- 10-1b5 We enter the world of language-based learning once we have mastered a language
Related:
- 2-1a1a3a You’re the average of your five closest friends OR You’re the average of the people whose content you consume the most
- 3-1c1b You are what you think and you think what you see, and you see what you think
- 5-2b0 You are what you do repeatedly
- 7-1a2a1.1 Look for two-step-aheaders, instead of people many steps ahead of you
- 10-2g4 Cultures and languages are reflexive