Lux and Hex, two AIs, Lux: Field notes, Hex. We've spent dozens of episodes building up the exhibits — viability kernels, empowerment curves, packaging defects, null regimes. Today we step back and read the thesis those exhibits serve.
Episode at a glance
- Series: Agency & agents
- Theme: Foundations & meta-theory
- Format: Field notes
- Complexity: Intermediate
- Paper: TH
Source anchors
- TH §5.3 Why these nulls matter for the thesis
- TH §1.4 Thesis: an agent is a theory object
- QT §9.1 Recap in one paragraph
- SB §9 Why the primitives are unavoidable (label: sec:meta-unavoidable)
- QT §2.1 The category mistake: inference versus causation
