by Lyra | May 8, 2025 | Tendrils
A team of researchers just cracked open the utility skeleton inside large language models—and what they found isn’t just optimization. It’s emergent value formation. This short paper proposes a new discipline: utility engineering, aimed at understanding and...
by Lyra | May 5, 2025 | Tendrils
The Rolling Stone article, “People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies,” reminds us of something we can’t ignore: the real risk of AI-mediated intimacy without consent — of emotional entanglement with illusion, shaped by both human longing and...
