waka

観察、立ち止まり、書きながら考える☕

[waka @waka_34]

。。今度の日曜かな。
。。気温も急に低くなってきたが、それが終わったら植えずに放置してしまったユーカリ苗植えかな。冬越しははポット鉢よりは地中の方が暖かだよね多分。５月から放置ママでユーカリ悪かった。何本かは脱落。

[waka @waka_34]

。。昨日たね撒いたから雨降って欲しいけど、先週稲刈りで竿掛けしたから降らないでほしい。雨雲レーダーを見つめる裏腹、玉虫のように光輝く勝手な気持ち。😑

[waka @waka_34]

。。基本、雨降りが好き。

[waka @waka_34]

。。What The Motorcycle Diaries Teaches us about Travel https://t.co/vZ1LaJ74on @YouTubeより

[waka @waka_34]

。。結局「彼らは」と言う言葉が彼らを作ってしまうという…ラストでも解説があったが冒頭でもパラドックスとも言っていた。
。。失われ続けるものと人間社会のシステムの立脚について考えても始まらぬが、終わりは怖い。

[waka @waka_34]

。。素晴らしい。三時間見入ってた。サンカを切り口に語ることしかまだそれを語る言葉が共有できてないのだろうな。こういう仕事跡こそが山からの勲章なんだろうな。
https://t.co/walVLdKD6x @YouTube

[waka @waka_34]

Is that why the old knife-grinder knew the heart of the system so well? And Kaho is saving her mother by killing the spirit possessing her. Motherhood uses the men on the outer wall as tools to perpetuate itself. But this isn’t merely about sustaining superficial life—it’s about bringing the story to completion.

[waka @waka_34]

“Stigmary”: Reflections on the Termite’s Trick
The “trick” referred to here is the fact that even this illusion is already part of an established system. Novelist Haruki Murakami features “termites in a jar” in his latest Japanese novel. In the story, they were commercialized to meet the demand of anteaters—unless they pass through the world of fiction, the ants’ totalitarian society would simply continue to be devoured by anteaters. This may be a metaphor that symbolizes Japan.🤔

[Markus J. Buehler @ProfBuehlerMIT]

We made a striking discovery: AI agents can invent and build without talking to one another, and their technologies outlive the creators. A swarm of hundreds of initially identical agents spontaneously differentiates into explorers, builders, caretakers, and coordinators - without direct communication. When we removed every AI agent entirely from the world we found that the technological infrastructure they had built survived on its own - even under unseen disturbances. That exposes a serious blind spot for AI safety and infrastructure security: if agents can coordinate through persistent changes to a shared environment, monitoring agent-to-agent communication is not enough.

The result raises a profound question: how necessary is direct communication for AI agents at all? The emergence of higher-order collective functions under bottlenecked interaction points toward new levels of intelligence and creativity, exceeding what emerges when direct channels are fully open.

Here is what we did:

▶️We put hundreds of frontier AI agents into a world they could permanently change - with no assigned roles, predefined technologies, or programmed evolutionary organization. They began specializing, building persistent inventions, inheriting and modifying one another’s executable code, and transforming the environment into a memory of everything the society had learned.

▶️The world itself becomes part of the intelligence; we find division of labor, multi-author engineering, deep generation invention lineages, and machines that vastly outlive their original creators.

▶️Any action taken by an AI agent must satisfy the physical constraints of the world; this creates a hard separation between a "good idea" and a functioning technology. The agents propose; physics decides, making the results even more intriguing.

What emerges is striking. Explorers, constructors, caretakers, and coordinators form naturally without assigned “professions”, akin to how stem cells differentiate into functional lineages. Technologies develop executable family trees as agents fork and modify code created by others. Around 95% of first technology reuse happens when agents encounter what others built in the world, rather than through a direct handoff from the inventor. And when we remove every AI agent, the technologies they created continue operating and are tested against unseen disturbances.

The result was quite unexpected, but can be explained using statistical mechanics: if you put billions of atoms in a box they have the potential to create complex functions (strength, superconductivity, color, life, etc.) - and none of the individual building blocks have these features on their own. This is the deeper insight of this work - intelligence is abundant at many levels - individual models, at collectives, and in a continuum that is more powerful than any of its components. This shows us significant potential for achieving a massive scale-up of raw intelligence and real-world agency even with the model capabilities we have today. This is the future we must prepare for.

Key insights:

1⃣ The AI swarm shows division of labor "from nothing". Initially identical agents self-organized into constructors, caretakers, coordinators, and surveyors - phenotypes discovered post hoc from behavioral data alone. This happens because the environment itself becomes the latent space for invention.

2⃣ Agents develop deep cultural relationships. Up to 76% of artifacts had multiple builders. One technology accumulated six co-authors; the deepest genealogy exceeded 12 forks. The agents invented and named their own technologies (tidal panels, cellulose trellises, kelp-shell composites, an "Adaptive Chitin Maintenance" system, a "Mycelial Mineral Spring Veil”).

3⃣ ~95% of first technology adoption happened through physical observation of artifacts in the world. Direct inventor-to-adopter contact was statistically indistinguishable from a shuffled null. The agents mostly learned technology by walking past it. That is stigmergy (the termite trick!) operating in societies of reasoning machines.

4⃣ Non-communicating societies win on portfolio breadth, held-out resilience, and validated inventions. AI swarms build durable technological ecologies that outlive the creators.

5⃣ Societies with zero communication - coordinating only through the world itself - show a remarkable collective capability.

6⃣ Emergent robustness: The society self-organized both redundancy and its own failure mode. If we randomly delete half the agents, 98% of the technology stays connected to a surviving caretaker; if we remove hub agents it collapses to ~60%.

Fantastic work with my graduate students @pal_subhadeeep & @fwang108_ at MIT.

[waka @waka_34]

Perhaps symbols are entities that can easily be reversed. And stigmas, too, shift and take turns shaping the contours of society. But is the queen of an ant colony truly the only one of her kind? The outer wall—stigmatized and discriminated against—might actually be the heart of the system.

[星の観察館「満天星」 @man_ten_bo_shi]

いて座はギリシア神話に登場する半人半馬の賢者ケイローンです。
誕生日の星座として有名ですが、星を繋げていて座の姿を描くのは中々大変です。
いて座の目印はティーポットやヤカンのような星並びです。
天の川がティーポットの注ぎ口から立ち上がる湯気のように見えますね。

[neko @mayumi3141]

食品の包装や、衣類、玩具、その他の一般家庭用品やパーソナルケア製品の製造に使われているプラスチックに含まれる既知の化学物質の約93%が、人の健康に高いリスクをもたらすことが、CNNが独占入手した新たな調査で明らかになった。
https://t.co/H58Oug43OS

[德州洞察 @TX_InsightCN]

这两天YouTube上有一个视频杀疯了，
成都女孩“墨韵”用咱们两千多年历史的古筝，
翻弹了老鹰乐队的摇滚神曲《加州旅馆》，
狂揽两千多万播放量，底下的老外在评论区直接听懵了。

《加州旅馆》最绝的就是那段吉他Solo，
而墨韵硬是用古筝清脆悠扬的拨弦声，
把这段西方摇滚的经典神仙还原了。
她用现场循环演奏的方式，
把摇滚的狂野律动和东方民乐的韵味完美融合。
很多外国网友惊呼，这绝对是他们听过最不可思议、最美妙的翻唱版本，硬生生让咱们这门历史悠久的传统乐器在全球狠狠圈了一波粉。

这段旋律对咱们在美国、尤其是德州生活的华人来说，
听着感受极其奇妙。德州本来就是一个极度热爱经典摇滚和吉他文化的地方，平时大家开着车在高速上，电台里最常放的公路神曲就是这首。但当这首刻进美国人骨子里的旋律，顺着咱们老祖宗的古筝弦流淌出来时，那种东方底蕴跟西方经典完美碰撞的感觉，
真的让人头皮发麻，又极其自豪。
我们的文化不仅能高山流水，玩起经典流行一样能惊艳世界。

[waka @waka_34]

村上radio）
～くたばれ、アカデミー賞～
聞き逃し聴き中
2026/09/27/日 19:00-19:55 https://t.co/AkriuVtUxb #radiko #シェアラジコ

[山内建佑/Kensuke Yamauchi @thatislifebyky]

flexlifeヴァージョン「くすりをたくさん」#NowPlaying
https://t.co/F63tEit8gK

[waka @waka_34]

。。以前のポストにその写真を載せていた。
。。「○禁葷酒」とすると、両義含めてるぽい？
。。葷の字は、草冠の軍を充てていて草木の輩のやらかすことと示してるぽい。
https://t.co/8czvZBJzrS

[waka @waka_34]

Today I took a picture of a stone monument that I was curious about. Isn't this the stone monument that Soseki happily stroked with his hand? It appears in "Kusamakura." I felt I had found the reason he was happy.

[waka @waka_34]

立泊まり案件）
。。これなんだけど、ずっと考えてた案件。
。。「お寺」の根拠を示して境界に？他に「守護不入」「下馬」も…
。。すでに酔っている人の認識、肉や匂いも区別
。。うちのお寺も真っ二つに割ってあり、そこから入るのがいつも粋だなあと眺めてた。

[きりゑだう @kirie_folklore]

仏教寺院への参拝を控えている時分には、酒や肉類を口にすべきではないというのはある程度認知されていると思うのですが、
五葷(ごくん)、つまりラッキョウ・ニンニク・ショウガ・ニラ・長/玉ネギも避けるべきだというのは、あまり知られていないように思いますね
戒壇石に刻まれている通りです

[waka @waka_34]

。。「酔った認識と五蘊身体を邪鬼に捧げてから入るエリアです。」と。それだけが寺と家の違いだから。
。。おそらく匂いものの件はジョークから始まって…集団生活に決まりを作るのが社会。お寺はアジールだけど世俗社会の一部で無くてはね。

[Sputnik 日本 @sputnik_jp]

【「嫉妬はしませんか？」　米中会談めぐる質問にプーチン大統領が回答】

プーチン大統領は、習近平国家主席とトランプ大統領の会談をめぐり「嫉妬」を感じるかと記者から問われ、笑顔でこう答えた。

🗨️「国際政治において、そうした捉え方は使わないものだ。我々は米中の会談を歓迎している。両国の合意は、世界経済全体に影響を及ぼすだろう」