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      <title>Awake in the simulation</title>
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      <description>Every night your brain renders a whole world and convinces you it's real. The lab science of noticing — LaBerge's eye-signal proof, real-time dialogue with dreamers, the 40 Hz gamma signature — and the cheap, strange skill of waking up inside your own head.</description>
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      <title>One big brain is the wrong bet</title>
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      <description>Everyone's racing to build a single, enormous mind. The most interesting AI of the last two years came from the opposite move — throw a lot of small agents in a room and let them sort it out. On swarms, emergence (Vicsek, Boids, OpenAI hide-and-seek, Generative Agents, Project Sid), and why the swarm needs real payments.</description>
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