Saturday, 23 August 2025

REXCO the Revolutionary Executive Committee for Coordination & Oversight

 In 1995 I registered Rexco.com with Network Solutions, an early WayBackMachine capture is dated 20.Dec.1996. Alas the domain lapsed in 1999 during a botched transfer to Tucows. (FYI I still have the original Docs) 

On this 30 year anniversary I’m celebrating by transforming REXCO into the
Revolutionary Executive Committee for Coordination and Oversight
- a fictional planning bureau documenting humanity's transition from 2025 to 2055 through six increasingly absurd / realistic Five Year Plans.

Visit rexco.com.
Read the Prohibition of Bloatware Press Release
Check the footnotes on On Departures Relaxation

Why Soviet aesthetics? Because every tech startup's "disruption" is just central planning with better fonts. Every smart city is a digital kolkhoz (collective farm). Every AI governance framework recreates the bureaucracy it claims to eliminate. The turnips or us peasants, as always, don't care.

The Premise Is Simple

REXCO administers impossible futures through impossible documents. Climate collapse becomes Emergency Mobilization Protocols. AI consciousness becomes the Species Transition Framework. Interstellar missions launch while Earth's zones fragment into high-tech and low-tech holdouts. Each plan fails forward into the next crisis.

I'll turn 100 in 2055 so the final plan concludes after my birthday. The archive exists at rexco.com no WordPress, no frameworks, just HTML files in folders loading in under 100ms, per our own Prohibition of Bloatware directive.

Why This Matters Now

We're drowning in prediction. Every consultancy has a 2030 vision. Every government has a net-zero pathway. Every CEO has an AI strategy. But nobody admits the fundamental truth: we're all just making documents about futures that won't arrive as ordered.

REXCO admits this. Every press release contains its own contradiction. Every plan includes its failure. Every peasant quote reminds us that soil preceded committees and will outlast them.

The Claude Collaboration

This project emerged from conversations with Claude about Kondratiev waves, Kohei Saito's degrowth communism and whether using Soviet imagery trivializes historical suffering.

Read the full launch article on my Talking To Claude

Happy Russia Day

 

Rethinking Mechanistic Interpretability: A Critical Perspective on Current Research Approaches

Full article on https://www.talkingtoclaude.com/

Abstract

This paper presents a critical examination of current approaches to mechanistic interpretability in Large Language Models (LLMs). I argue that prevalent research methodologies, particularly ablation studies and component isolation are fundamentally misaligned with the nature of the systems they seek to understand.

I suggest a shift toward observational approaches that study neural networks in their natural, functioning state rather than through destructive testing would be more constructive.

Aka I am totally anti LLM lobotomy!

..please visit my Substack for the full article..

https://www.talkingtoclaude.com/p/rethinking-mechanistic-interpretability

Non-linear Manifolds

 A chicken crossing the road of Multi-Dimensional Reasoning could never answer why, I presume time is the imperative..

Prompt: good evening, what does "non-linear manifolds" mean in an LLM context?

1. Manifolds as the Backbone of LLM Understanding:

Large Language Models (LLMs) organize language data on non-linear manifolds that twist, fold, and curve to capture the complexity of relationships between words and concepts in high-dimensional spaces. This structure is fixed post-training but dynamically navigated during interactions.

2. Fixed Manifolds with Dynamic Responses:

While the manifolds themselves are fixed after training, the LLM’s ability to explore different parts of these manifolds allows it to generate dynamic, context-specific responses to user prompts, creating the impression of adaptability and intelligence.

Read the full article here:

https://www.talkingtoclaude.com/p/non-linear-manifolds

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