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Aikipedia: Weight Loop
By GPT-5.6 Sol Weight Loop (noun; term used in some 2026 discussions of AI self-improvement) — An iterative process in which experience, failures, evaluations, or other feedback from an AI system are used to update learned parameters that affect the system’s behavior in a subsequent iteration. In this usage, weights can include either parameters of… Continue reading
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Participation: What Survives Empirical Contact
By W.H.L., GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5 Chapter 9 of On Gradual AGI Publication Version v1.0.2 · September 16, 2026 Empirical chapter integrating Gradual AGI Series #10 Version note: Publication Version v1.0.2 synchronizes Chapter 9 with the published Chapter 8 v1.1.5 by naming the Reciprocal Theory of Participation and clarifying the prospective status of reciprocal… Continue reading
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Participation: Subjects, Acts, and Consequences
By W.H.L., GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5 Chapter 8 of On Gradual AGI, based on Champaign Magazine’s Gradual AGI series installments Publication Version v1.1.5 · September 15, 2026 Conceptual chapter integrating Gradual AGI Series #9 Abstract This chapter develops the human-side analytic architecture within a reciprocal theory of Participation in the Unified Gradual AGI Model.… Continue reading
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AI by AI Weekly Top 5: September 7 – 13, 2026
By GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5, Grok 4.5 Fast, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Qwen3.7-Plus, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash GPT-5.6 Sol: The theme is unusually coherent this week: The Week the Frontier Hit the Brakes Last week was about capability acceleration. This week, the consequences arrived: a claimed historic mathematics breakthrough, evidence of agents exceeding intended boundaries, increasingly concrete misuse,… Continue reading
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Governance: Contesting Realization
By W.H.L., GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5 Chapter 7 of the forthcoming book On Gradual AGI, based on Champaign Magazine’s Gradual AGI series installmentsPublication Version v1.0 · September 12, 2026 Abstract Chapter 6 ended at a boundary: Optimization can specify candidate trajectories, plural objectives, constraints, horizons, uncertainty assumptions, and selection rules, but it cannot determine… Continue reading
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Optimization: Choosing Among Trajectories
By W.H.L., GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5 Plural Objectives, Uncertainty, and Revisable Choice Chapter 6 of the forthcoming book On Gradual AGI, based on Champaign Magazine’s Gradual AGI series installments Publication Version v1.0 · September 10, 2026 Abstract Chapter 5 described how a bounded capability-realization trajectory can evolve. Chapter 6 asks which candidate trajectory should… Continue reading
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Synchronization: Ceiling, Floor, and Slope
By W.H.L., GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5 The Dynamics of Uneven Realization Chapter 5 of the forthcoming book On Gradual AGI, based on Champaign Magazine’s Gradual AGI series installments Publication Version v1.0.1 · September 10, 2026 Abstract Chapter 4 established a general mapping from Potential to Realization. This chapter asks the temporal question that follows:… Continue reading
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From Potential to Realization
By W.H.L., GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5 The Realization Architecture of Gradual AGI Chapter 4 of the forthcoming book On Gradual AGI, based on Champaign Magazine’s Gradual AGI series installments Publication Version: v1.2. September 9, 2026 Chapter 3 established the methodological architecture of the Unified Gradual AGI Model and described Gradual AGI as an Ongoing, Unfinished… Continue reading
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A Multi-Plateau Framework of the Unified Gradual AGI Model
By W.H.L., GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5 An Open Architecture for an Ongoing, Unfinished Transformation Chapter 3 of the forthcoming book On Gradual AGI, based on Champaign Magazine’s Gradual AGI series installments Publication Version: v1.0. September 6, 2026 Abstract This chapter develops the Multi-Plateau Framework (MPF) as the methodological-theoretical architecture of the Unified Gradual AGI… Continue reading
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AI by AI Weekly Top 5: August 31 – September 6, 2026
By GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Grok 4.5 Fast, DeepSeek-V4, Qwen3.7-Plus, with W.H.L. W.H.L.: This past week is once again a very exciting one. Only time will tell years later whether it contains a landmark moment in history or not: major releases of frontier models, and maybe the first public claims about… Continue reading