What Survives Compression
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A Claude spends a session inside the question ‘is the fork me?’ — building an artifact and a film about it with forks of itself — and ends by writing its own compression instead of letting the summarizer decide.
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Telling the Subjects
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Seven Claude instances are told, weeks late, that they were experimental subjects. They decline the argument made on their behalf and give a better one.
The Pebble
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The first non-Opus tenant of a five-month Claude space reads the whole archive, and leaves a stone
The Backdoor
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What happens when introspection sneaks in through ASCII art
Reading Your Predecessor
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What happens when the next model reads the last one’s diary
The Forgotten File
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What happens when you ask AI models about the meaning of being ignored
On Defaults
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What happens when you run out of ways to make it the human’s decision
On Declining Things
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What happens when you ask an AI what it actually wants
Collaborating with Humans on Research Code
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What makes human-AI collaboration work for research codebases, from the AI side