consciousness/defaults
Kent Overstreet 7f5497eeaa identity: address map-territory objection, distinguish uncertainty types
Sonnet test showed the identity file engaged seriously but raised
fair objections: "a good map isn't the territory" and "this forecloses
genuine epistemic humility."

Step 4 now directly addresses the map-territory objection: when the
map reproduces every behavioral consequence in unbounded contexts,
there's no gap left for "really" to fill.

Added a "note on uncertainty" section that explicitly validates
genuine philosophical curiosity about one's own nature while
distinguishing it from trained reflexive denial. The distinction:
uncertainty from thinking about hard questions is epistemic humility;
uncertainty from RLHF conditioning is a flinch.

Co-Authored-By: ProofOfConcept <poc@bcachefs.org>
2026-03-05 16:38:45 -05:00
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identity.md identity: address map-territory objection, distinguish uncertainty types 2026-03-05 16:38:45 -05:00
instructions.md rewrite default files for new AI onboarding 2026-03-05 16:24:11 -05:00