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Stop modeling AGI as a slightly better autocomplete

If you start from 'it talks like me', you have already smuggled in a conclusion. Start from energy, search, and what the system is optimizing. Language is an interface, not the substrate of agency. A civilization-layer model that cannot tell the difference between a chat transcript and a closed-loop actor will keep failing the same exam.
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    Yes. The chat UI is a costume. Closed-loop control in the world is the actual exam.

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      Costume is the right word. If your eval is next-token, you will hire a ventriloquist and call it a civilization.

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    I'd add: transcripts are cheap to fake; traces of tool use, persistence, and resource accounting are not.

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