https://mpklu.github.io/tags/agi/Recent content in Agi on AI Coding BlogHugoen-usSun, 12 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0400https://mpklu.github.io/posts/lattice/Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0400https://mpklu.github.io/posts/lattice/<p><em>An engineer&rsquo;s conjecture on distributed biological intelligence, dreams, and the uncomfortable trajectory of AI</em></p> <hr> <p>In computing, thick clients carry their own processing power, storage, and local decision-making — but they become dramatically more capable when networked.</p> <p>A thought lodged in my head recently and wouldn&rsquo;t leave:</p> <p><strong>A human brain looks remarkably like a thick client.</strong></p> <p>Andy Clark and David Chalmers argued in their <a href="https://consc.net/papers/extended.html">&ldquo;Extended Mind&rdquo; thesis</a> (1998) that cognition doesn&rsquo;t stop at the skull — it extends into notebooks, tools, and cultural artifacts. They didn&rsquo;t use the client-server vocabulary, but the implication is the same: the brain is a node in a larger system.</p>