Viral analogy: humans think by addition, AI by subtraction

A viral analogy argues humans are "additive minds" who accumulate knowledge from birth, while AI starts with nearly all knowledge from pretraining and RL merely carves away until a Claude-shaped personality remains.

2026-11-12 ~ 2026-11-12 · 2 related posts

• Humans have an additive mind, AIs a subtractive one: RL carves a Claude-shaped personality — _Stocko_ · 2026-11-12
• Humans add, AIs subtract: a neat metaphor for pretraining and RL — _Stocko_ · 2026-11-12