Lobeworks/17: writing

The manifesto, the dissections and the protocols: where what is learned gets argued.

- De Mente Reserata: The Ultimate Power: A manifesto on the economics of reading and writing the human brain, dated so that it can be checked. It separates what physics forbids from what engineering has not yet done, sets the comparison with GPT-4 point by point, names the six permits a neural function needs before it becomes a product, stakes one measurable bet on how much of fitting a decoder to a person can be learned outside that person, predicts the order in which those functions will arrive and what each will look like, and closes with dated bets and the evidence that would prove them wrong.