Post-AI Computer Science – Volume 5

In this blog post, Youngjin Kang argues that software goals should be designed to reproduce themselves through "semantic recursion," letting a minimal set of logical building blocks generate complex objectives. Using examples of God's declarations ("Let Alice be a human and Dinah be a cat"), he shows how the word "and" bundles multiple statements and how true statements persist across days via temporal continuity, with interruptions treated as a source of chaos. He closes by noting that definitions alone do not create narrative meaning, and that the next volume will address distinguishing good from bad to establish purpose.