re·current
Everything Recurrent Machines builds returns to a single idea.
belonging to the present moment; in use, in force, now.
Intelligence is only real in the present tense.
a body of water or air moving steadily in one direction; a flow.
The world arrives as a stream, never a snapshot.
a flow of electric charge; the motion that animates a machine.
Matter stays inert until something moves through it.
We compute on the current state of the world.
A model of yesterday is a memory, not a mind. We would rather be approximately right now than precisely right too late.
We treat reality as a current, not a photograph.
State streams in, decisions stream out. Nothing we build is ever truly still; it is held in motion on purpose.
To re·cur is to run again, and carry the run forward.
A loop is not repetition. It is a current folded back on itself, each pass holding what the last one learned.
We work at the moment inert systems begin to act.
A machine is matter until current moves through it. We are interested in the spark, and in what it sustains.
To stay current is to stay synchronized with change.
The world does not pause to be understood. We move at the speed of the thing we are modeling.
Feeding on its own output - restless by design.