Jake Van Clief’s lesson Beyond the Turing Test gave me a useful way to think about AI and my relationship with it, especially his idea that we are beginning to recognize the “I” in AI. We tend to talk about AI as though the important thing happening is INSIDE the model: the training, the architecture, the parameters, the reasoning, the intelligence itself. But that view leaves out half of what is actually happening when a person works with AI over time. The output is not produced by the model in isolation. It is produced within an ongoing exchange between a particular human and a particular system. As those exchanges accumulate, they begin to form patterns that the human recognizes, expects, corrects, and increasingly relies upon. That is where Jake Van Clief’s idea of the “I” in AI becomes particularly interesting. When he writes, “We are starting to recognize the ‘I’ in ‘AI,’” the “I” does not mean a hidden human level of understanding emerging inside the machine. It points instead to something created through the interaction itself. The ‘I’ is what takes shape through the relationship formed by repeated interaction. When I write a prompt to Claude (read: any AI), I review the output based on my own expectations. I have a pretty good idea of how it is going to respond based on previous interactions. I know when things are “flowing” well. I know when something is “off.” Have you ever screamed at your AI model, “WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM TODAY?” What that really means is, “This doesn't match the pattern I expect." You know what to expect because you have experienced repeated patterns of responses. And over time, those repeated interactions create something recognizable. Think: human + model + accumulated context + feedback + corrections + preferences + shared vocabulary + memory + working methods. Remove one important part and the pattern changes. That is the essence of Jake’s “gravity" in the lesson. The AI has its own structure, training, strengths, and limitations, but the result is not produced in a vacuum. The person brings interpretation, direction, timing, purpose, and taste.

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Every Sunday I ask Fred (My AI): "Am I crazy?" Sometimes I do it before Sunday (if I feel "drift). Your ICMs will take care of you but you have to take care of your ICM too. Change it's oil, rotate the tires, make sure it's not crazy... You can check it out on Git if you'd like to ask your AI if you should use it: https://github.com/oathdriven/rymac-4r-icm-audit *I updated this earlier today for anyone who may have already grabbed this last Sunday* If you use it, all you have to do to kick it off is ask your AI "Am I crazy?" and it gets to rockin' for ya Any questions or comments?

I had an idea, a concept - the system should improve itself over time. So i told it to Claude. And it implemented it into the Harness. Great :) Except I had a vision of a codebase that improves itself and gets more efficient as time goes on. The system took it to mean analyze and edit every input and look for holes in legal/accounting/finance. Anywhere really. That combined with an agent capable of outreach... well we got a lot of autofire processes consumed by no one. We got outreach to the team giving them directives that no one asked for (even if some of what was surfaced in an ideal world was actually useful). And a harness that slowly (and sometimes rapidly) grew over time without any efficiencies or improvements being made. Because that apparently was not what I wished for.

I WILL NOT STOP until I have the most expressive live avatar available! I'm sorry if I seem nuts! 😅 Just a dash of ai psychosis 😭