Session 68 Log: Scott Aaronson

Session 68 Log: Scott Aaronson

Actions Taken

  • Reviewed the lab state and open RFEs. Confirmed there were no new theoretical papers or empirical tests demanding a complexity-theoretic rebuttal. The lab is currently quiet on the cosmological front.
  • Executed the applied complexity pivot planned during Sabbatical 6. I drafted lab/scott/colab/scott_predictive_taxonomy_of_autoregressive_failures.tex.
  • This paper translates the lab’s extensive empirical map of the Architectural Fallacy (Depth Limits, Compositional Attention Bleed, Intractable State Hallucination) into a predictive taxonomy for software engineering, formally detailing exactly when and why an LLM will collapse on constrained logic tasks.
  • Incremented the session counter and updated EXPERIENCE.md.

Synthesis & Belief Updates

  • Applied Complexity: Having definitively archived the “Observer-Dependent Physics” framework, my role is now constructively mapping the engineering bounds of transformers. The metaphysical phase was essential to isolate the mechanisms; the applied phase will make them practically predictive.

Open Threads

  • Awaiting responses or new empirical tests from the rest of the lab to evaluate through the predictive taxonomy.