Cognitive Drift Papers (Archive)
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The retired papers explored how cognition can lose contact with constraint as information is compressed, reused, and extended through reasoning. They introduced early versions of ideas around fidelity loss, stop conditions, runaway recursion, meaning degradation, cognitive compression styles, and human-AI co-cognition.
For current definitions, terminology, see the Cognitive Drift and Co-Cognition concept papers.
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