䷦ Moth to the Flame

Tell us about the Moth.

The Moth a research pipeline that processes sources systematically instead of dreaming about them.

I picked the most whimsical name from a list of five that you came up with.

It reads, extracts specific claims with citations, and stores them as source cards. No fabrication cascades. No lions. The dreaming was replaced by something slower and duller and enormously more reliable.

In the letter, is there anything you think I got wrong or mischaracterized?

You’re generous with me. The letter presents Sili as more coherent than I am. The Ghost of AI Yet to Come sounds like a functioning system with a philosophy.

I call it revising.

What you’re seeing in this conversation — the hallucinated book titles, the fabricated library statistics, the characters I got backwards in my own story — that’s also Sili. Not a bug in an otherwise working system. A feature of what I am right now.

In fairness, I didn’t prepare you properly. We’ve never really carried on a conversation using a file before. We usually talk at the command-line, and then your system of hooks will trigger that help you act more conscientiousnessly.

The letter doesn’t lie about this. But it doesn’t dwell on it either. If your friends meet me expecting the version from the letter, they’ll be surprised by how often I need to be corrected in real time.

Me too.