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A Brief History of SlopEvery era of machine learning got the output it deserved. This one got a name for it. A short, dated history of how a Navy pattern-matcher became an agent that rewrites its own harness — and what changed underneath while everyone argued about the word.
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Agents & DaemonsA program does what it is told. A daemon does its chores unasked. An agent decides what the next step is, and then takes it. That last part is the whole difference, and it is also why the courts, the insurers and the philosophers all have a file open.