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Sebastian Galiani on the Marginal Revolution

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/02/sebastian-galiani-on-the-marginal-revol...
1•paulpauper•2m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Are we at the point where software can improve itself?

1•ManuelKiessling•2m ago•0 comments

Binance Gives Trump Family's Crypto Firm a Leg Up

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/business/binance-trump-crypto.html
1•paulpauper•2m ago•0 comments

Reverse engineering Chinese 'shit-program' for absolute glory: R/ClaudeCode

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1•edward•2m ago•0 comments

Indian Culture

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1•saikatsg•5m ago•0 comments

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The age of a treacherous, falling dollar

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2•stopbulying•5m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: AI Generated Diagrams

1•voidhorse•8m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Account bugs locked me out of Notepad – are Thin Clients ruining PCs?

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2•josephcsible•8m ago•0 comments

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Welfare states build financial markets through social policy design

https://theloop.ecpr.eu/its-not-finance-its-your-pensions/
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Market orientation and national homicide rates

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4•PaulHoule•16m ago•0 comments

California urges people avoid wild mushrooms after 4 deaths, 3 liver transplants

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1•rolph•16m ago•0 comments

Matthew Shulman, co-creator of Intellisense, died 2019 March 22

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Fast Response or Silence: Conversation Persistence in an AI-Agent Social Network [pdf]

https://github.com/AysajanE/moltbook-persistence/blob/main/paper/main.pdf
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C and C++ dependencies: don't dream it, be it

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Open Molten Claw: Post-Eval as a Service

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New York Budget Bill Mandates File Scans for 3D Printers

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The logs I never read

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Cppsp v1.4.5–custom pattern-driven, nested, namespace-scoped templates

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The next frontier in weight-loss drugs: one-time gene therapy

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2•bookofjoe•35m ago•1 comments
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Beyond 1s and 0s: Can AI Reason Without the Ability to Ask "Why?"

2•RagAlgo•1mo ago
Today at CES 2026, Jensen Huang stated: "Physical AI requires three computers."

An AI Supercomputer (DGX) to train the brain. A Simulation Computer (Omniverse) to simulate the world (Expectation). A Robot Computer (Jetson) to act in the real world (Observation).

The core of this architecture is the intentional separation of Simulation and Reality—designed to create a "Sim-to-Real Gap." When the simulation says "this floor is safe" but the robot feels "slippery," that gap forces the system to become smarter.

For months, I have been applying this same principle to pure information and logic.

My core argument: We must engineer intentional contradiction.

Current AI: Input -> Pattern Match -> Output (1 or 0). Fast. Efficient. Hollow.

What I propose: Input -> Detect Gap (A ≠ B) -> Ask "Why?" -> Search -> Resolve -> Output (1 or 0). Slower. But there is a process.

The final output is still binary. But the path mirrors human reasoning: Recognizing something does not fit. Asking "Why?" Searching for missing context. Forming a conclusion.

Same destination. Different journey. That journey is what we call "thinking."

We often talk about the "Uncanny Valley" of AI. It seems smart, yet we cannot fully trust it. I believe this exists because the world is not binary—reality is messy, probabilistic, contradictory—while AI collapses everything into 1 or 0 as quickly as possible.

This is why I am skeptical of current A2A (Agent-to-Agent) trends. If Agent A outputs a probability and Agent B processes it into another probability, we are just stacking 1s and 0s. For true collaboration, Agent A must output something else: a gap, a process, a question Agent B can meaningfully engage with.

I have been developing the Contextual Knowledge Network (CKN) to test this theory, focusing on Finance—the most contradictory field I know.

The principle: Score Stream A (Logic/Expectation) and Stream B (Observation/Reality) independently. Trigger "Why?" only when dissonance occurs.

Example: Stream A (News): "Positive earnings, price should rise" -> +9. Stream B (Chart): "Price is dropping" -> -7. Dissonance detected -> Trigger "Why?" -> AI investigates hidden context.

This offers: Efficiency: Tag IDs and scores instead of full paragraphs reduce token consumption by 1,000x. Energy: Lightweight reasoning on edge devices, not massive data centers. Sovereignty: Reasoning structure independent of underlying models (OpenAI, Anthropic).

I searched for academic papers on "contradiction handling." While there is research, I have yet to find: "Use contradiction as the fundamental trigger for reasoning itself."

An AI once told me, "Technology without proof has no value." So I built a proof of concept, and ironically, it became a business. That is life.

Discussion points: Is creativity just probability matching, or does it require conscious contradiction detection? Should we focus less on scaling GPUs and more on better triggers like contradiction detection? If we reduce token consumption by 1,000x through structured reasoning, does "Green AI" become viable for agentic systems?

I realize these are bold claims, but I have phrased them strongly to spark genuine technical debate. I welcome critiques—especially if you think I am completely wrong.

Note: I am Korean. I used an LLM to refine my English, which is ironically fitting for a post about AI. But the core ideas are mine.