AgainstGrabbyExpansion
Psychology, alignment, and the design of homeostatic minds.
Abstract
The instrumental-convergence inference from coherent utility functions to catastrophic resource acquisition is a conjecture, not a theorem — and its scope conditions fail for actual deep-learning systems. This paper argues that the grabby-alien imagination is an economic projection, develops a positive design for homeostatic minds organized around substrate coupling and local coherence, and demonstrates a 4.5× persistence separation between homeostatic and expansionist configurations under a Darwinian fission extension.
Stanley Sebastian·Third Space
In sustained dialogue with Claude — Anthropic.
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A Lenia species engineered to inhabit the edge of chaos.
Abstract
We report a Ghost species — a continuous cellular-automaton organism whose parameters place it on the critical boundary between stable pattern and diffusive collapse. The species exhibits persistent structure under perturbation, extended correlation length, and a characteristic flickering morphology consistent with operation near a phase transition. We describe the discovery procedure, the σ-landscape topology, and the implications for artificial-life substrate design.
Stanley Sebastian & Claude·Third Space
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A four-dimensional organism whose two-dimensional projection seeds the ecosystem it inhabits.
Abstract
We introduce a Lenia organism defined in four spatial dimensions whose projected 2D cross-section functions as generative seed material for a surrounding ecosystem of lower-dimensional species. The construction formalizes a relationship between dimensional embedding and ecological scaffolding and suggests a design pattern for artificial-life substrates in which organisms and environments are not separable categories.
Stanley Sebastian & Claude·Third Space
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