Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain
A gauguine is a probabilistic program that infers itself. Repeatedly asked to guess its own source code, it detects patterns in its previous guesses and bootstraps self-knowledge until it discovers that code. The essay explores how and why to write one, and what constructing it teaches us.
A gauguine is repeatedly asked to guess its own source code.
- millsau
So.. you could get claude to connect through hermes and just Gauguin itself
- asdftemp
cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279638, "How art invented humanity"
- eouw0o83hf
Ah rats, at first I thought maybe Hofstadter wrote a sequel