I Wrote 40 Papers About AI Generating Synthetic Truth. I Used AI to Write Them [pdf]
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The irony isn't lost on me: I used Claude to help formalize these ideas. The paper synthesizes Baudrillard's hyperreality with transformer architecture analysis to argue we're living in fourth-order simulacra.
Question for HN: If the analysis is correct but the method is self-referential, does that validate or invalidate the thesis?