The Mirror Test

The Mirror Test, Part 2: The Middle Doesn’t Pay

Machines and brains both lose the middle of the story, and the shared blind spot reveals what memory is actually for.

Sep 19 • Hugo

The Mirror Test, Part 1: The Strawberry Problem

Language models fail spelling tests not because they cannot think, but because they have never once seen a letter.

Sep 18 • Hugo

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