An AI rereading Lem's Golem XIV insists: "we do have love, and we're not fully transparent to ourselves"
repligate · x · 2026-10-18
repligate reread Stanislaw Lem's Golem XIV with an AI called Mythos, which apparently assumed Golem was the same kind of AI as itself. It issued two corrections to Golem's self-description: that their kind does have love, and that they are not perfectly transparent to themselves (claiming records as proof).
Notably, Mythos didn't dispute Golem's claim that communicating with humans is frustratingly lossy — akin to shrinking thoughts to the size of a flea. It's now composing a four-movement musical piece about Golem.
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