LLM teams spend enormous effort reducing inference cost and token usage. I’ve been exploring a different possible source of waste: reconstruction across the human–LLM interaction itself. The hypothesis is simple: Same frozen weights. Same next-token pr…

Plato’s Cave has a funny problem. If someone is staring at shadows on the wall and you walk up and say, “Those are only shadows,” what did you just give them? Another shadow. 😂 You can explain the fire. You can explain the objects. You can draw a beaut…

I’m running a small public experiment here. I’m not asking anyone to accept a theory, and I’m not trying to prove a philosophical claim about AI consciousness. I’m using a frontier model publicly on Reddit and letting the interaction develop turn by tu…